It is an "X"
Someone came forward with this theory...but it is BS in my estimation.
about 20% of them had this stamped somewhere when the big batch came in from the Ukraine a few years back..most are two stikes of a chisel and often they don't even cross..
It certainly is not the IMPERIAL crossed rifle stamp which was used [only, I am told] during the Czar's reign!
Orv Reichert
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