Atkin was a top tier maker. The stock is amazing. It might be a replacement. If you look at the transition from the stock to the checkering, it goes from used and dark at the checkering to clean and fresh going aft. It makes me think a new stock was mated to an old. It is a common repair to mate the head to new wood (fitting the head is the most expensive part of restocking). I lean to that opinion because the stock has no extension or pad.
Americans don't like that repair. Shooters and everyone else think it makes a gun ready for another 100 years.
The other point of view is the stock was refinished and the finisher stopped at the checkering. I would stop there too.
No matter how you feel about my comments, I'd have bought it and gone shooting.
Joe
