Here is a very interesting Model 1896 Carbine stock. Where someone cut out a square junk of the stock, and placed a wood piece with a fake 1898 Cartouche. It appears they made the fake Cartouche with a small piece of wood, with some kind of resin, glued it in, then painted the stock. My question is wow, all the work to do this? The stock appears to be a real carbine stock, I have never seen anything like this. I am going to steam the stock and fix it. It will be a good shooting stock. Has anyone ever seen anything like this??? The M1 garand stocks have a lot of fake stampings. But this is crazy! Unless I just destroyed some rare stock...

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