Ron, I can not say that the lack of the stitching is an absolute but that the twenty holsters of mine I looked at indicated that one should expect it to be there. As to the stock, the only original German Imperial military stocks that I know to be original all have the cartouche. The two that I have that lack the cartouche came to me from a very questionable dealer and are in all liklihood counterfeits.
As a further note on the Imperial cartouche of the stocks, I have recently seen some that are almost certainly fake, so watch out.
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