the Box craze and accessories

[AudieMurphy]

After reading many post on newly acquired pieces. I cant help but noticed theres a the movement growing on boxes and accessories. posters claiming they're looking for an origonal box, when in fact its a period correct box. BUT making it origonal to the gun , yea, making it origonal by adding a blank label to a period correct box and some pencil imagination....HUH! excuse me!! and adding "the" screw driver...But before they do that...they want to know if its the correct screw driver. OH, and dont forget the repo'd owners manual and reciept......whats next?

 

[bigggbbruce]

Patrick?

 

[thadheth]

Sounds a bit like “Buy the gun, not the box, or the papers, or the SAT.”

 

[Rusty parrot]

Hey,
There’s some of us who would like to reproduce the “litter” that accompanied the way our guns left the Factory. It’s not an attempt to falsify the legitimacy of what is there, it only an attempt to satisfy what we would like to have.
Please be patient with us.
Thanks for your understanding and best to you.

 

[MelvinWalker]

It's no different than buying NOS body panels for a 1969 camaro, or replacement owner's manual or a FOMOCO approved repro window sticker for a 1970 Boss Mustang.

In fact, I have a 2007 Mustang, and my local Ford dealer looked my VIN up and he gave me a PDF of my exact window sticker for free. I printed and laminated it to go with my car paperwork.

Making a fake label on a box? No....

 

[sodacan]

The OP apparently knows all the tricks. I won't be buying anything from him. LOL

 

[AudieMurphy]

Hey,
There’s some of us who would like to reproduce the “litter” that accompanied the way our guns left the Factory. It’s not an attempt to falsify the legitimacy of what is there, it only an attempt to satisfy what we would like to have.
Please be patient with us.
Thanks for your understanding and best

The OP apparently knows all the tricks. I won't be buying anything from him. LOL

Im learning here!....LOL

 

[Gun Relics]

After reading many post on newly acquired pieces. I cant help but noticed theres a the movement growing on boxes and accessories. posters claiming they're looking for an origonal box, when in fact its a period correct box. BUT making it origonal to the gun , yea, making it origonal by adding a blank label to a period correct box and some pencil imagination....HUH! excuse me!! and adding "the" screw driver...But before they do that...they want to know if its the correct screw driver. OH, and dont forget the repo'd owners manual and reciept......whats next?

I'm guilty as charged except for the fake labels. I hunt boxes, paperwork, tools. It's fun and is a hobby within a hobby.

When somebody fakes something, it devalues the entire package. Reproduction is OK when disclosed, fraud is not.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

As I have posted - a while back when pretending to be a Gun Store Clerk at my Buddy’s store-
I have sold guns, and have watched guns being sold, and the buyer zipped the new piece into a Rug and left the box laying on the counter.

 

[MelvinWalker]

As I have posted - a while back when pretending to be a Gun Store Clerk at my Buddy’s store-
I have sold guns, and have watched guns being sold, and the buyer zipped the new piece into a Rug and left the box laying on the counter.

Correct...back in the day that probably happened all of the time.

Here is a pic that I just took of two large plastic tupperware trays full of original manuals and some hang tags that I bought from a gun store estate...Winchester, S&W, Remington, Ruger, Squires Bingham, Colt, High Standard and many others.

I would assume that back in the 70's, 80's and 90's, (when most of these manuals were with the guns), the buyers simply bought the gun and left the paperwork laying on the counter. This now deceased dealer saved them all and I ended up with them. Eventually, they will all go on Ebay.

 

[SGT ROCK 11B]

I would assume that back in the 70's, 80's and 90's, (when most of these manuals were with the guns), the buyers simply bought the gun and left the paperwork laying on the counter. This now deceased dealer saved them all and I ended up with them. Eventually, they will all go on Ebay.

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That is how it was in the 1970s and I am sure it was like that in the past.

Once I bought a used S&W revolver and I asked if they had the box. The Clerk said no but he will look in the back. He came back with a Ruger box and said will that do? I took it but I am okay with a used handgun in a brown paper bag.

 

[SGT ROCK 11B]

....whats next?

I find it was interesting that everyone wants the original wood grips.

But a lot of people wanted ivory, stag or fancy wood grips instead of the plain jane wood grips.

Or like most of my police coworkers wanted Pachmyr grips for shooting.

 

[MelvinWalker]

I find it was interesting that everyone wants the original wood grips.

But a lot of people wanted ivory, stag or fancy wood grips instead of the plain jane wood grips.

Or like most of my police coworkers wanted Pachmayr grips for shooting.

Nobody wanted original grips back in the day... Now it's hard to give Pachmyrs's away and original S&W K Targets are $150 on Ebay...

I remember buying a Security Six .357 back in the 80's and the first thing I did was remove the factory Ruger targets and put Pachmayr's on it.

 

[gmborkovic]

Having been a dealer back in the 60s thru the 80s , I just put a trash can by the counter and watched customers toss boxes, SATs and grips in the can. Yes, I retrieved the SATs and grips. The kids would take the boxes for pencils and crayons. And I had the best BB gun business in the county.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

Having been a dealer back in the 60s thru the 80s , I just put a trash can by the counter and watched customers toss boxes, SATs and grips in the can. Yes, I retrieved the SATs and grips. The kids would take the boxes for pencils and crayons. And I had the best BB gun business in the county.

What is a SAT? I know I'll feel stupid after someone tells me.

Rick

 

[ken158]

Refurbing something with original parts or reproduced parts is not saying you have an all original gun, box, accessories package. Car collectors have been doing this for years.

 

[DARE]

Rick, SAT stands for sight adjustment tool. I worked at a gun store in the 80s. I always thought they were screwdrivers for the grips. I feel a little stupid also.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

Rick, SAT stands for sight adjustment tool. I worked at a gun store in the 80s. I thought they were screwdrivers for the grips. I feel a little stupid also.

Yup. I knew it. I feel stupid kind of. Now that you said it I think I may have seen it before. It's still a screw driver and will always be a screwdriver.

Rick

 

[DARE]

Mr. Audie Murphy. Hey, your not that guy from WWII are you?
I think it is pretty normal to try to add a box and accessories for your guns.
Not a Box craze.
I have one gun with the original box. Have one more with a correct box. If I were to run across boxes or accessories for the guns I have I would be interested.
I have a Registered Magnum that came with Magna stocks. When I got it it was wearing some Diamond Targets from around 1968. Found a nice set of Pre-War Magnas and bought them.
I have a Triple Lock from 1916 that had some not factory pearls and .44 Hand Ejector 2nd Model from 1926 with some faux stags that I was able to find correct grips for.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

I've never gotten a bluebox with any of my S&W's. They all came with the wooden presentation case but they were all 44 Magnums from the 70's and early 80's. The only one that didn't was a used Model 17 so I was able to buy one from S&W for $50. I was also able to buy
the cleaning kit that would have come with it if it was new. The Rod, wire brush, swab and SCREWDRIVER.

Rick