Your Opinion on This Southern Rifle MANY PICS ADDED

[Cades Cove Fiddler]

  ... see if you can decide if the letter should be an "R" first,.... if Holt  did work on the gun,.. it looks like he only did repairs and kept the old stock with Unicoi hardware and profile,.... my old eyes sometimes fool me, but in the third photo down of the second series there appears to be something where the lock bolt would normally be,... ... we shall follow this puzzle,.... post more pix close up when she gets to her new home,..... Regards,... CCF,....

[bluenoser]

I saw that too and am anxious to have a good look at it.  Upon comparing it's location on the off-side panel to the same location on the lock panel, I concluded it is likely too high for a lock bolt.  All will be revealed in about a week