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Maybe someone on this thread can tell me what these two boxes might be worth.
The first is to a Model 41 which I sold a while back and just came across the box. I didn't remember I had it! The box is in fair shape but has the insert (for the 7-3/8 barrel w muzzle break), the instruction manual/parts diagram and the cleaning rod. ca: 1973
The second box is for a Model 37 in Nickel that was shot with +p and the frame cracked. S&W replaced it (for a very nominal fee) with a 642. The box has all the paperwork, pamphlets, wrapping and tools and is in very nice shape. Instruction sheet dated August, 1978. (I also have the original grips and a set of S&W "boot grips" for the M37 that are Goncalo Alves and very nice.
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Can anyone show me what the box for a Model 10-5 looks like and what came in the box? I only have the gun and would like to make it as close a set as I can.
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Thanks for the info...now on to the hunt!
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Cool Airweight Box
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I would hazard $20 toward the value of that one.
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I hear those red instruction sheets are kind of scarce. That sheet alone may be worth $20.
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Help With S&W Box
Hope someone can help with info on this box. It came with a K 22 Outdoorsman circa 1935, but I have never seen a box like this. It is a hard plastic of some kind and fairly heavy. I could not find one like this in any of my books or on the Web. There are no markings except for the S&W logo on the front. I put a later K22 in the box for size reference. Any help is appreciated.
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It looks like a salesman's sample case. Looks like it is in good shape. If it is for the K22, it would be nice if the gun is the sample! They should stay together.
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Thanks for the info. I still have the the K22 Outdoorsman that was in the box, just didn't have it handy for the picture.
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I would request a letter from Roy Jinks (S&W historian) for $50. If the K22 letters as a salesman's sample, I think that K22 Outdoorsman w/case could be quite valuable.  Why don't you take some pics of the gun too, and post them in the SWCA forum and maybe Roy can look at them? One of the bennies of SWCA membership.
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Nice collection. Would you happen to have a factory box for a Smith&wesson model 645 pistol, .45 ACP? Thanks Pete.
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Nice collection. Would you happen to have a factory box for a Smith&wesson model 645 pistol, .45 ACP? Thanks Pete.
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Not me Pete, sorry. How about putting an ad in the forum "Want to Buy" in the classifieds?
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Ok, thanks, Pete.
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lonecowhand, that plastic box has been called a "salesman's sample box" by collectors, however that is incorrect. These boxes were manufactured in the late 1940s, however they were never use by S&W for guns, and were scrapped. Many have found their way to gun shows & Ebay, etc. since. Somewhere on this Forum's archives there is a detailed history & explanation of them by Roy Jinks. Ed.
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Here's one that's a little different
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Russ, if I recall correctly, those boxes were merely a fluke that happened during the assembly process. The red staples were loaded into the machine and a bunch of red boxes were made up. The next run was for blue boxes so the staples were removed and blue staples were put in the machine. Occassionally, a bunch of staples got caught in the machine and a blue box ended up with red staples. You will also see this with gold boxes and blue staples.
Nothing really noteworthy, just a manufacturing glitch.
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Quote:
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Occassionally, a bunch of staples got caught in the machine and a blue box ended up with red staples. You will also see this with gold boxes and blue staples. Nothing really noteworthy, just a manufacturing glitch.
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Notice anything else unusual on this end label . . . besides red staples on a blue box?
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Looks like the stamp got put in backwards on that one! Maybe a Monday morning after a big game...??? 
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When did S&W start using the end label and stop writing the serial number on the bottom of the box?
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