Took a year to get, here's the backstory, any thoughts?
A friend of mine who is in Madrid purchased this directly from a retired Spanish military officer who says that his father was in the Spanish Civil War and picked this up on the battlefield and it has been in his family ever since. His story for the date code and proofs being "matrixed" out is that Hitler sent arms to Franco which was "illegal" at the time, so dates and proofs were matrixed out to hide documentation of manufacture, etc. You can still make out the last number in the date code - a "6" so 1936.
Numbers all match including magazine.
Any thoughts? My friend is working on getting the retired officer to write a letter explaining the history - I just thought that would be cool.
Knowing my friend purchased directly from this gentleman in Spain I have no reason to doubt the story.......
