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Hum3
It certainly looks like a real Rossin to me.
I've got one also, without the usual Rossin-hallmarks except a panthographed fork. After lots of searching around for info, I came to the conclusion that not all Rossins have, for instance, a cut-out 'R' bottom bracket, the particular lugs and their name below the seatstay.
The earlier models (late 70's/ early 80's) certainly have those details, as well as the higher models after that period. But in the mid to late eighties, Rossin seems to have 'commissioned' quite some frames without those hallmarks. Usually it's on the mid to lower-end models; some of them might be even built for them, not by them per se. (But that was not that uncommon in that era, I've come to learn.)
Anyway, just my two cents: I wouldn't worry to much about it. It certainly doesn't resemble anything remotely suspicious (like some of the obviously fake frames with bad paintjobs and slapped-on Rossin decals, which is partly responsible for the general confusion, I think.)
I think it's a really cool frame by the way. Fantastic paintjob!
The Rossin brand was sold to the Basso brothers at some point, who were makers/marketers of rather 'workaday' or "no frills' racing frames, so as you've sorta surmised/suspected, they decaled lots of things as Rossins that might look varying degrees of "different" than a "typical Rossin." Italy had (almost literally!) gazillions of small-to-medium-sized contract framebuilders back than, fwiw, that built for lots of "name brands."
One of my favorites is Biemmezeta (BMZ), who did many (all?) of the Palo Alto framesets (among many others).