Please help with Arty stock I.D.

ithacaartist · 08-02-2015, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by calibrator

Since the 1923 Finnish purchase of LP08 stocks was for 5000 units, Mine having a serial # 4521 would definitely put it into this block if the Finn's numbered them sequentially.

This "if' is big, I think, unless someone knows for certain. It is my impression that stocks were numbered to the guns with which they were issued. Would the factory have serialized a single contract, of stocks only, unto itself... starting with 0 or 1? If they were check-fit/fitted to guns in Finland after they arrived, why wouldn't they also have been numbered to match those guns? I can't see a reason to serialize them, otherwise. We must also consider that fully half of all possible pistol/stock mated rigs within any 20's production block had numbers under 5000.

calibrator · 08-02-2015, 11:58 PM

Do you know (you're such an intellectual) that "IF" is the middle word in "LIFE"? You know what Col. Kurtz would say... Ask Rudyard Kipling... Throw Stones, or Throw Roses..., ???

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08-02-2015, 11:58 PM	#2
calibrator User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cave Creek Posts: 340 Thanks: 67 Thanked 271 Times in 108 Posts	Do you know (you're such an intellectual) that "IF" is the middle word in "LIFE"? You know what Col. Kurtz would say... Ask Rudyard Kipling... Throw Stones, or Throw Roses..., ???