Originally Posted by JP@AK

Okay. So the box is original, just a late shipper for that style. I will make a note of this - latest one I've seen. Not too surprising I guess, since some of the gold boxes were shipped as late as the early 1960s on some models.

The price is about what I would expect in the late 1960s. I just checked a 1965 Gun Digest and the list price for a blued Model 10 was $65. With the nickel finish, it was $70. No difference in price between the tapered barrel (Model 10-5) and the heavy barrel (Model 10-6).