Vall, if you mean the use of stippling instead of checkering, this is the first one I have seen that is all stippling but nearly all I have seen have some stippling incorporated into the checkering patterns and he sure seemed to like to use the little circles that look like they may have been done with a nail set. Michael said he liked to do lots of weird things to his stocks. Michael also said that Howe very seldom marked his rifles with his name.
Dan

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