Straight Shooter:
Yes to all. There's the San Marco Lion stamp on the right side of the watertable; on the barrel-flats under the right tube; a buttplate with "Armi" in larger type in the center with "S. Marco" along the top and "Gardone V.T." along the bottom. Mine has the "XX" stamp which would be the Roman numerials for 20 years after the dating stamp began in 1945.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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Many thanks, Raimey. That's the most credible evidence, one way or the other, that I've heard on any forum so far. I'd assume from this that the 'BG' on the facing pages of the book probably stands for Brescia, Gardone. The lion motif is an easy inference for a company named Armi
San Marco.
It all fits. The mysterious Italian hammer gun is unmasked!
