USGI buttplates?

[IRON WORKER]

Picked these up NOS with same VPI as NOS M14 parts from 60's Two different die struck buttplate and one with M
Anyone?

[IRON WORKER]

More pics of buttplates

[IRON WORKER]

Few more of VPI

[Orlando]

In all my years of messing with garands and handling hundreds of butt plates I have never seen a USGI plate stamped with any letters

[IRON WORKER]

Me neither ,but I've looked these over ,measured them mounted in stocks . They look legit ,you can see light storage contact from being stacked together . I would say repack in large box . The key is the VPI paper ,this paper is same paper seen on many SA NOS M14 parts ,gas cylinders,flash suppressor. From 60's

[CCyooper]

They look like they have been refinished as it doesn’t look like a WWII type finish. However, that said they look like new butt plates. I don’t recall the letter M but I seem to remember someone posting a similar butt plate a few years ago on the CSP or CMP forum and people just thought it was an armorers mark etc. I could be imagining that because my searches have come back null.

[IRON WORKER]

I figured they were arsenal repacks , the lighter one I figured for sure was repark . But really just trying to be certain these are USGI .

[Beltfed]

One looks like manganese phosphate, the lighter one looks like zinc phosphate or put in a park tank with a weak solution.

[IRON WORKER]

Yes , and I believe the lighter greys were found on 60's era repack parts.

[Orlando]

NOS parts would not have been arsenal refinshed /repacked

[IRON WORKER]

Can't say they have been refinished just making a guess, there is no wear on either one . I'm not sure how NOS buttplate were shipped ? It appears these were stacked on top of each other hence the VPI inside. Probably in a larger box .