Sliding wood patchbox question.

[FlintSteel]

I'm working up my first sliding patchbox, on a York rifle. I have seen (in one of my reference books, can't remember which) a patchbox with a small steel striker plate, that was dovetailed into the buttplate edge at the latch location to minimize wear there from the latch spring. It's a nice touch, but was it common, or recommended?

[Hank in WV]

I've never heard of this before and would like to see a picture of it myself.

[Captchee]

i dont know that it was common . but it would be useful to reduce wear on  a very soft  yellow brass butt plate .
 Is it needed  IMO no not really .
Maybe if you spring notch/ catch  is  very  shallow .
Any chance that what you were seeing was a repair .
 Possible  the catch spring came lose and it had to be driven deeper . Thus the thickness of the  butt plat in the catch area had to be built up ?

[pathfinder]

Gotta agree with Captchee on this one. Although OCD was also around back then too!

[FlintSteel]

Thanks guys.