Here is one of Mussolini's body guards Carcanos that I picked up today. It is confirmed a moschettieri del duce carcano. I didn't even know when I bought it. ( I picked it up because it's purdy!) This has a black stained stock and a heavily tarnished silver plate on many of the parts. I am not going to clean it too much until I find more info on it but here it is. Note the remnants of plating on the magazine and around the screws on the barrel bands. You can see the plating good in the gap between the stock and hand guard on the barrel. I wanna take it apart to get some good pics but I am not going to touch it until I see if I'll destroy the value.

 

Damn! That's a nice piece of history. Bravo sir!