This is post war but kind of cool. I went into a local shop ty o get a garand and the owner showed this to me. Apparently sold to an officer at the end of the war. He is trying to research it and I think has been in touch with Rock Island. The officer that brought it back did carve his name in it I don't know if this helps in this case because the bring back paper has serial 111 instead of 1.
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