indiucky
Grandmaster
Thanks, guys - and that's what I choose to remember about INGO.
So, as I go down that rabbit hole, it looks like a US military noncom might've been holding that in Europe or in the US. But, based on other information, it was speculated that it might have been in the Philippines during that poorly-remembered US military action, but that seems unlikely.
Welcome back T Lex....
imho...
That photo is of a national guardsman holding a captured Swiss Vettereli rifle from the Battle of Blair Mountain...he was probably like, "look what these hillbilles they are fighting with can you believe it" pic.....
Here's a pic of some captured arms...there is a list somewhere and there was a sh*t load of them...very popular through Sears and Roebuck, Monkey-gomery Ward and others....