If you run out of possibilities I have a Mannlicher Schoenauer trap-door buttplate that looks like it was in a train wreck. Needs to have someone who knows what they are doing to straighten it out, a good plate that is hard to find.

Have you talked with Joe's family? I am involved in a like situation and one of the very first things we did was made sure any property of others was returned.

MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014