Dear "Wind River"
Welcome to the forum, here is my guess on your rifle, I think it was
done in Japan after the war. Japanese gunsmiths were allowed to
work on firearms that were owned by American servicemen and many
brought their rifles, handguns and shotguns over there to be worked on. A friend Whitey, who contributed to his board until he passed away, told me that he supplemented his pay by taking guns with him to Japan, having them engraved and bringing them back to the US and selling them.
My father won the engraved rifle in the tread linked below.
The work was done in Japan.
engraved 1903 He paid about the same price you did, Michael Petrov wrote me that a guy couldn't get the engraving done on the floorplate for what he paid for the whole rifle.
You did good. You got an interesting rifle for about the same price a person would pay for a new Model 70 Featherweight.
