I can picture an employee seeing this nice rough turned, semi-inlet stock, possibly rejected for a higher grade gun because of some minor flaw or defect, and either himself or a stock fitter buddy fitting it to a lower grade gun for him. Might explain why no Q on the trigger guard. Q was an inventory stock letter for the K-quality guns and this gun never went into inventory. All pure speculation, but that is all we have.
I mentioned above, 1907 and dieNusse1 over on the Remington Society site did also. We should keep in mind that these guns in general didn't leave the factory in serial number order. Charles did his chronology by totaling up numbers of guns shipped from shipping records, as there are no production records for the individual guns, or at least they haven't been found yet.
With the A.H. Fox Gun Co. where we have individual production cards, we see guns that were finally finished up and shipped years later then guns around them. I own two guns that are fourteen serial numbers apart, one shipped in 1914 and the other was not shipped until 1918. They would both be 1914 in the Fox serial number chronology available on-line. A friend down in Virginia has a gun that was started in a batch of five higher grade guns in the late 1920s. Four of the guns were finished and shipped as XE-Grades in the late 1920s, and his gun was finally stocked and engraved as an AE-Grade and shipped in 1940. But, it has all the receiver profiling of an XE- or higher grade Fox.
