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    Posted: Feb 26 2023 at 8:42pm
I just picked up a Type III Inland stock and found this buttplate on it.  The diamonds are inverted on the outer surface, and raised on the inner surface.  Does anyone know the manufacturer and where it was used?


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I actually had two first-block Inlands with that "inverted" buttplate.   The blank was stamped with the squares, but then fed into the "edge folding" machine upside down? That's my guess.

My first factory original carbine, Inland 141314, purchased at the Lakeland, FL gun show in 1978, had this buttplate, and it wasn't until I joined the Carbine Club and started learning more about buttplates, that I realized that mine was inside-out.

Years later, I saw another factory-original Inland in the 200,000 range with the same buttplate.

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I believe he has posted about that inverted butt plate on this forum?

@dmgfour, can you post a picture of the other side? does the stock look cutt down to low wood, slingwell markings?
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Stock was a legit Type 3 with IO code in slingwell.  Here's a picture of the other side.




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... and my Director of Marketing for rare buttplates.


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Looking like an Inland!
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"Looking like an Inland!"

Diamond pattern in top and bottom rows, with the exception of them being on the wrong side, and  countersunk area, fits description for Late Inland.
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Only pic I can find of it right now. I still have it.




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This one came on a bulk purchase of loose stocks, came off a WRA Type III Korean return.



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