I disagree. The first receipt merely sais he bought a guncase, possibly marked Barella, an old shotgun, a rifle and two scopes, all items pre-war perhaps, at the same time. For the whole shebang Hicks paid S 8000.-. Some time later he had a Kahles scope mounted on a gun, most likely a rifle. If you see more it is whishfull thinking and overinterpreting to me.