Looking into this a little more the receipt calls out 7064 which is a standard grade 30-06 both the box and hang tag show 7084 which is the super grade which this rifle clearly is so box rifle and hang tag all seem to match up except for they discontinued 7084 in 1959 but it is within a small number of serial numbers into following year which could be explained by just using up parts.
I spoke to my dad who is in his mid 80’s and our family has been in this area since mid 1800’s. MFA was established in 20’s but they were called farmers exchanges to the local farmers. He was on the board of another exchange but doesn’t know how they were linked with their purchasing with the larger MFA. They definitely had one but sure how billing would have been invoiced in a purchase like this. So the receipt at best is real and the distributed just invoices the wrong style number and they got a heck of a deal. At worst it is a fabrication or somewhere in the middle it is just the receipt for a different gun.
