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Originally Posted by rct269
. . . "It is difficult to provide an answer on the box." (He doesn't say why, perhaps because more than one style/color was or could have been in use at the time . . . "Generally this revolver at this time frame would be in a maroon colored box, hinged top, cut away bottom and have a green label. The inside of the cover would have the instruction for function in both English and Spanish." . . . Ralph Tremaine
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Roy is is most certainly correct, since in the mid-1920s there was a transition between the hinged box and the patent box. No one knows when the hinged boxes were all used up, but the patent box/clam-shell box that seems to be most common predominated the examples found from around 1926 on. A similar transition period took place in the mid-1930s and WWII with the red riveted boxes.