An original! Priced piece in my collection

[leadhoarder]

Looks like Eugene Stoner designed the stock geometry.

 

[Canute Rex]

This is pure speculation on my part, but the buttstock reminds me of a repair job a friend told me about on a more modern gun. The rifle in question had been sitting in a barn with the butt on a dirt floor for decades. Of course the last couple of inches of the stock had rotted away. My friend cut off the rotted bit and tagged on a block of replacement wood. It looks as if that is what happened here.

 

[Rudyard]

Dear Canute Rex. This may well be the case but there are other curious things that makes me think it's not 17c this said I could be miles out it is old but mid Victorian is old too .No one,s asking my opinion so Ile gracefully withdraw from the matter. Your view makes good sense & the gun confirms it re the rotted original butt damage .
Regards Rudyard