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usmc69
02-06-2010, 05:06
Saw this on another forum. I can't find my examples of this marking. But if I remember correctly Elmer was a boxed O.G.E.K. Also there was a boxed OGEK that stood for something else. In any case the markings are much neater, at least the O.G.E.K. on my carbine stock is way neater.

http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2778864#post2778864
Johnny P
02-06-2010, 06:53
Looks like the result of a bored person with a sharp knife.
jim c 351
02-06-2010, 07:14
Looks like the result of a bored person with a sharp knife.

Correction---A not very skilled , bored person, with a dull knife.
Jim C
LanceS4803@aol.com
02-08-2010, 07:18
Nice whitteling.
I picked up an Eddystone M1917 in Ogden, UT with a boxed OGEK stock marking. It looks more like an inkstamp.
Greg V
02-08-2010, 08:51
Here is the one on one of my CMP carbines.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f20/Nushigak-Moose/CMP%20STD%20PRO/CMPSTDPRO012.jpg
Johnny P
02-10-2010, 02:31
If I remember correctly, the boxed OGEK was Elmer Keith, while un-boxed OGEK was Ed Klouser.
usmc69
02-10-2010, 07:07
This is on one of my stocks. I had read/heard that the O.G.E.K. boxed was the Elmer Keith stamp, circa 1949-1956.
jim c 351
02-11-2010, 05:55
This is on one of my stocks. I had read/heard that the O.G.E.K. boxed was the Elmer Keith stamp, circa 1949-1956.

If I remember correctly Elmer quit his job at Ogden while WW2 was still on. He would have been long gone by 1949.
Jim C
usmc69
02-11-2010, 05:11
If I remember correctly Elmer quit his job at Ogden while WW2 was still on. He would have been long gone by 1949.
Jim C

May be wrong on the dates and probably am.

Also found this: http://m1903.com/isstamps.htm
Johnny P
02-12-2010, 09:04
I have not seen the actual dates when Elmer Keith started and left Ogden, but everything I have read says he served as inspector "during WWII".
RCS
02-12-2010, 09:25
some additional rebuild stamps missing from the M1903.com list of rebuild markings.

There is also the SA SPG post WW2 rebuild stamp too
jgaynor
02-15-2010, 03:34
I have not seen the actual dates when Elmer Keith started and left Ogden, but everything I have read says he served as inspector "during WWII".

Johnny, Did Mr. Keith actually phyically inspect the rifles with his mark or was he more of an executive like Col Atwood who was in charge of a hoard of lesser lights who did the actual inspections? Just curious.

Regards,

Jim
Johnny P
02-15-2010, 04:09
Colonel Frank J. Atwood was the commanding officer of the Rochester Ordnance District, and as such was in charge of all those that did the inspections and acceptance at all the plants manufacturing military goods in his district.
I really don't know the answer to your question, but the fact that there were two O.G.E.K. stamps, one for Elmer and the other for Ed Klouser, it sounds like it was a hands on job.
jim c 351
02-15-2010, 04:29
Johnny, Did Mr. Keith actually phyically inspect the rifles with his mark or was he more of an executive like Col Atwood who was in charge of a hoard of lesser lights who did the actual inspections? Just curious.

Regards,

Jim

Elmer was a hands on guy. He was so particular that he was a source of irritation with the OIC. He once rejected a bunch of BARs because the bolts were blued against his orders. Another time he threatened to shoot , then LT. Brophy with a M1911.
Elmer tells a few of the tales in his book "HELL I WAS THERE".
Jim C