1. A writer asks : " What is checkering ?" 2. Hand-checkering is not standard on maple or laminated stocks. 3. Appliances made after 2012 have the newest red and bright yellow checkering . 4. The tail may have a faint, black checkering . 5. The gun has a beechwood stock with stock checkering and a ventilated butt pad. 6. Rice made her debut in Checkering Hall, Boston, in September, 1883. 7. The checkering of the squares was a European innovation, introduced in the thirteenth century. 8. It has front and back strap checkering , and rear and forward cocking serrations on the slide. 9. Unlike the standard Custom, it comes with tritium bar-dot night sights and 30 lines per inch frontstrap checkering . 10. The butterfly is usually brown or black with extensive white and yellow checkering and some red coloration on the dorsal wing.