Rick, I hear what you're saying and the bottom of the buttstock checkering had me leaning to thinking it was non-standard. But when I started searching, I found several like it. On page 71 of David's book, his 99K has checkering just like it. I've found a couple other 99K's with similar bottoms to the checkering.
I don't know what it means. The bottom being squared off and right above the pistol grip is definitely not normal. But special order checkering isn't either. Love to see if anything is recorded in the ledger for this one.
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