M1 carbine hand guard marking

[ardennes44]

Hello folks 

needs your help on that marking , Winchester Barel proof marking on handguard and o+ have your ever seen I can find it on books … that one came from my area and it is untouched 

thanks for help :-) 

[DogDoc]

Just curious with that PW stamp, is it bullnose?

[DogDoc]

I hope I am wrong and someone may enlighten us but I am suspicious of it.  I can't find and evidence that anyone other than Winchester made handguards for Winchesters and their handguards are all W stamped.  It will be interesting if it is bull nose.  Early Winchester stuff used the PW stamp more.

 

Good luck,

Jay

[everforward]

To my eye (admittedly it's been a while), those look like Winchester proof marks.

[usmcdoc67]

This one has got me. I've checked all of the Winchester Carbine Club newsletters and couldn't find anything about those markings. Also, went through Ruth's and other reference material.......nothing. Kinda thinking it's bogus. If you have access to the Carbine Club web site, post it there. Marty, Dan or others might shed some light on it.

[ardennes44]

If found nothing too , the usm1 was left in Belgium in sept 44 , the owner of it , have to clean some parts because of the grease and dust , after the removal of the dry grease he discovered the markings , he owns a lot of usm1 but never seen that before . So for sure it was make by someone in the Winchester factory during the war . 

[DogDoc]

Can you get a picture of the front taken from the side?  Do you know any details about the rifle?  If this is a real piece, it would be nice to document.