What is this X-92 Inland that CMP just posted?

Wayne,

Will do Jim, like I said I will stop by the next time I am on post, usually go there a couple times a month picking up meds or shopping at the commissary. With Christmas coming up it will likely be after the new year. We used to use the auditorium at the museum often for graduations and promotion ceremonies when I was with the Marine Detachment, just didn't do a lot of looking at the displays.

yeah--that carbine does not have USGI issued finish on the wood

As to the carbine on display at Fort Leonard Wood and why, maybe for a similar reason CMP is auctioning another presentation. Someone didn't want it or inherited it and didn't realize it was a gift to the person, not to the army. Some may have thought it unethical to accept a presentation for themselves when the work they did was for the army. Maybe, maybe, maybe. :)

Over the years I've seen maybe a dozen smaller museums use whiteout and a 3 or 4 digit number for their inventory numbers. The origin of the one on the carbine being auctioned by CMP could be something different. Just similar to what I've seen.

All of the U.S. Army Museums are under the command of the organization that runs the U.S. Army Center of Military History. The past 20 years or so they've been digitizing a ton of documents and books. Also consolidating artifacts as museums are closed and organizations are realigned.

During a visit to the Rock Island Armory Museum about 11 years ago the curator related the Center was changing all of the museum artifact inventory numbers to a centralized master inventory system and planned on centralizing the various archives to one location. She indicated all the curators get together once yearly at the Center and the next meet she was expecting to hear more about where their archives were going.

I just remembered to check the pics I took during that RIA visit....



RIA had a three ring binder with info on each gun on display, organized by those 4 digit inventory numbers seen above, All numbers in the binder were preceded by the letters RIA.



One possibility, and obviously not the only possibility, for the carbine being auctioned by CMP is it became in excess of needed inventory during changes being made by the Center. Example being all the artifacts that were previously on display at the Ordnance museum in Aberdeen were not all moved to Fort Lee in VA. Same for all artifacts in the main Signal Corps museum at Fort Gordon in GA when it was closed.

One of our Club members tried to contact the Center for general museum info maybe about a year ago. They couldn't get a response.

Jim

sleeplessnashadow wrote: The Engineers museum at Ft Leonard Wood doesn't appear to have a full time staff. Their website is pretty minimal. If you get a chance to visit perhaps you could have a look-see and snap a few more pics.