Just saw the entire Julia photos. Question? Just curious? Gun ordered with recoil pad and 14 1/2" LOP. In the pics showing NB holding the gun, In one shows a leather lace on pad, another shows a rubber recoil pad [as indicated on order card] and a couple show a plain checkered butt plate. Closeup shows the checkered buttplate area on the original stock with no visible plugs for the screw holes. Is the broken so called original stock a replacement also? On the original order, I would assume the overall LOP would have included the recoil pad. Removing that pad from the original broken stock would have been 13 1/4". A little short for NB, I would think. Was the ivory inlay in the forearm common on special order guns? Never seen that before. Fox has there serial numbers stamped on the face of the buttstock adjoining the receiver. Anyone see a serial number on the face of the buttstock or did the repair remove it? Did anyone know that the barrels were stamped with NB and BB's names? Does BoWhoop #2 have the same stamping? Last, when did epoxy become a commonly used repair adhesive and were those brass screws in the buttstock repair? That epoxy repair on the broken stock would have been made pre-1950??
