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Originally Posted by DWalt
.....But CTC could have purchased them from some distributor, in which case there would be no factory record as to where they went after they left the distributor. You might get lucky.
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Based on my observations, pre-WW II it was indeed much more common for agencies and companies to buy through distributors rather than order directly from the factory.
But you might still get lucky. My 450345 from 1923 lettered as shipped to a large distributor in Minneapolis, but the letter noted that the shipment was for the Minneapolis PD, which is what I hoped to find out. So you could roll the dice if you can spare the money for a letter.