22-04-2014, 05:10 AM
Drew Phipps Wrote:That particular site wasn't more clarifying, but I did find a site that said that the importer "Ry...something" did sometime stain stocks with a black color and people just remove the color, so I guess that's a false alarm. I do recall seeing the name of that importer in the chain of ownership prior to Klein's.
Last question re the gun here. It is said that all period Italian firearms, in addition to the year in Arabic, also had a roman numeral corresponding to the year of the march on rome, i.e. the beginning of fascist rule in 1922.(?) So shouldn't Oswald's rifle barrel have a XVIII or something similar? There's no mention of it in Frazier's testimony and the pics you have displayed in your various threads don't show Roman numerals...
Interestingly, I've never looked that closely at the date stamp on C2766. There should be the Fascist date in Roman numerals there as well, and it could be XVII or XVIII, depending if the rifle was made before or after the anniversary date of the March on Rome in autumn of 1922. This fascist date was continued until Mussolini was deposed in October, 1943.
The strange thing, to me at least, is that I understood the wording of the contract to import all of these rifles from Italy insisted that all stampings, including serial numbers and dates, were to be removed from these rifles before they left Italy; with only "CAL 6.5" and "MADE ITALY" to be stamped on the barrels.
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964