Jerry, the points you stated have already been thru my mind but with the gun in hand I believe it is all G&H. I have also owned a few G&H rifles and in 50 years of fooling with collectable firearms have seen many more, trust me they don't all have the checkered thumbprint or G&H address on the floorplate. I am fairly sure the express sights are original to the gun as much of the original blue is still on the barrel, the lettering is crisp and shows no sign of tampering. As I stated above, in my opinion the G&H mount and Zeiss scope were added later, the double lever mount was mid 30s, another interesting note is that the rear receiver bridge is set up for a model 98 Lyman 48, the gun did not have the original 48 sight when I received it. The answer I think is as Gary stated "you could order what you wanted". I also think he is correct, leave it as is, well maybe do something about the ugly pad.
