The ad says 7.5 lb.
The Klein's February ad lists a Carcano at 5 1/2 lbs.
Your posting. Bayonet is irrelevant. Removed afterward? Never there? We're talking original 100 rifle shipment. 750 lbs. FBI report, WC.
750 lbs in a 60lb container?
Still, that's about 810 lbs.
Tell me. Do you think the fellow who assembled the container and the fellow who picked it up had access to a scale that could weigh such weights? Or is it more likely that the customer phoned the shipper and said he was shipping 100 rifles that weighed 7 1/2 lbs each?
The 36" rifle weighs 5.5 lbs.
The ad was wrong in those particulars (no Carcano weighs 5 1/2 lbs). Also wrong is the illustration. However, Klein's was receiving 40" Carcanos at a dollar over the TS price, and in turn selling the 40" Carcanos for $12.88, the price in the ad.
FBI paperwork suggests..100 36" rifles.
That would mean the crate weighed 113 lbs.
Klein's order form allegedly filled out by Oswald..36" rifle.
Order no. and price reflect a 40" Carcano. Do you think Klein's were shipping the illustrated rifle?
Or were they just lax in updating things? It was the Print Age; no faxes or web sites.
National archives rifle..40".
( P.S. A tip of the hat to Martha Moyer. And crazy John " I invented two Oswalds.. because...?" Armstrong, who is occasionally a good researcher...but a complete charlatan otherwise..)
More than a tip of the hat.
