Skeleton buttplates on Smith guns are seldom seen, but do exist. As FYI, in a September, 1941 Albert Kraus engraving department cost schedule is listed the cost to engrave a skeleton buttplate; so apparently they were available as an option thru out production. Although a skeleton buttplate adds some degree of snaziness to a stock, I can personally understand why they were not popular; those I have used with the Parker gun had a tendency to slip on recoil.