I can't believe how quickly you fellows jump to conclusions in attributing a rifle to a maker from a few photos. The checkering and cheekpiece only look vaguely similar to each other. Yet many singular and definitive characteristics are very different between the two rifles. The shaping behind the grip, grip cap angle and quarter rib or lack of.
As for the checkering; bordered rather than borderless, very different petal shaping, straight back line of the forend vs rounded. How it follows and defines, or doesn't define the rear line of the grip.
The cheekpieces don't look anything alike to me: one with a shadow line the other with elaborate curves at both ends.
I see this all the time on this board and mainly disagree. Until you have a variety or examples of signed or period attributed work to define a particular maker's characteristics I don't think it is wise to jump at similarities.
The rifle in the GI ad and the rifle in the book do look alike, but not much like this one....
That is my opinion.
Last edited by SDH-MT; 02/28/18 04:51 PM.
