Please help with Arty stock I.D.

[ithacaartist]

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.