Mine has USA152X....Marble cake buttstock with what looks like a pewter minute-man grip cap..I picked it up 2nd hand at a gunshow without the case or buckle but in unfired condition...just a couple lite handling marks..Still wondering if I should shoot it?...
maybe when your receiver got scratched the previous owner switched out the wood with a 30s/40s vintage gun...if he changed the grip cap on it with the older all black Ithaca type it would be hard to tell from a early wood set??..
I had one of the 1977 30in full 40yr anniv. ducks unlimited field grade guns that I sold a few years back with 2 extra hastings barrels one rifled slug barrel and a 28in wad lock with choke tubes....only hunted with it twice, probably had only 3 or 4 shells through it....sold it for $450...paid that much for the extra barrels....
