I cannot understand the attraction a fake stamp on a stock has for anyone who professes to be a collector. The very presence of such a stamping negates forever any possible value or collectibility of that firearm. Just as a phony $100.00 bill isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Such a stamp won't fool anyone truly knowledgeable of the subject and will only lower ones standing in the collecting fraternity. You can dress a pig up in a silk dress and put lipstick on it, but you only end up with a rediculous looking pig and make a fool of yourself. Oh and as a famous person once said, you only annoy the pig. No, I don't think that everyone who uses such a stamp is out to rip somebody off financially, I just feel that they aren't thinking it all the way through. What are they gaining? Nobody whose knowledge is instrumental in the world of U.S. Krag's and 1903's is going to be fooled or impressed. It's those very people, who's purchases, trades and sales of such firearms, who are instrumental in establishing the ever evolving collectors value of those firearms. That is what Flayderman's Price Guide is based upon. Now if anyone wishes to develop another and separate group of Krags and 1903's with fake stamps and features, then that's OK. Get together and have fun. However those firearms will never have a place in the world of original U.S. Firearms or their values. If some folks spent as much time in searching for and finding original and unaltered legitimate rifles as they do in creating copies, they'd really have something. Such original and fine examples are not that difficult to find. Many are not expensive if one keeps looking for them. That's a good part of what is in the thrill of collecting. The search. That's why they keep going up in collector's value. It's the difficulty in finding them. You guys who have finally found and acquired a special and long sought after gun know about that.