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Gents,
I was reading something -- it might have been an old catalog -- that mentioned a Super Grade M70 having a bakelite forend tip. Without ever really thinking about it, I guess I just assumed that on older M70s, the forend tip was really ebony, not synthetic or dyed hardwood. So, my question for you M70 experts: were factory super grades ever leaving New Haven with real ebony forend tips or was it always a lookalike/alternative material?
Thanks y'all.
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Huh. I've got admit that's kind of disappointing in a way. Not that they aren't fantastic looking rifles... I just liked to imagine that, at some point in "the old days," they were really using ebony and not synthetic.
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Huh. I've got admit that's kind of disappointing in a way. Not that they aren't fantastic looking rifles... I just liked to imagine that, at some point in "the old days," they were really using ebony and not synthetic. I’ll take dibs on any of those Bakelite SGs you see any deals on 7mm 
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Haha I can hardly afford the ones with bakelite... so maybe it's a good thing they weren't sporting real ebony.
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For pocano … 1936 WWSG&A Pocket Catalog Winchester never used the proprietary Trademark name ‘Bakelite’ in its literature although the ‘black molded forestock tip’ was undoubtedly Bakelite. The Winchester Model 54 Super Grade also featured a molded forestock tip of the same material. Thanks AK
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