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This is one of the oddities that come to Joe Kent all the time.

We took these pictures three years ago with that series on his model 8/81's, .351's and 1930's police revolvers, but haven't done anything with them.

The family of a local man sold this after his passing, IIRC. I would guess that the appellation "gentleman of the old school" would probably apply.

.32 hand ejector 5 screw 6016xx neatly hidden in a Grape Nuts box with a hinged lid.


Joe, I forget. Was there something else with this?


Anyone have anything similar?
 

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Just a wild guess, I would think there is a little piece attached to the top of the box which maybe fits in there to prevent the top of the box from collapsing.

A fine job of making something out of nothing, them old timers sure knew how to do it.
 
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When I was a kid, there used to be a little plastic toy or whistle or something in the cereal boxes. Never anything like this! Totally cool! :D
 
Cool, you'd probably be amazed at what some oldtimers
kept there handguns in before the days of the gun safes.

Chuck
 
Gentlemen, The man that did this was a childhood friend of my father's, who was one of the nicest most talented men that I had the pleasure of knowing. He was of small stature , but had fought the Island Campaigns of WWII as a very tough Combat Marine{is there any other kind?}. He then came back home to resume his life. He was an on the road salesman for one of our local mfg., was a great father and husband, taught himself to engrave and was a hell-of-a-fine woodworker to boot and then in later years built his own airplane. He was a shooting buddy of mine and left instructions to sell certain guns to me and at what prices{way below what I willingly would have paid}. This box came about because he never felt he wanted to be far away from the means to defend his family and had both pistols and revolvers secreted thru out his home. In all, I bought seven guns from his wife and when she called me to come over she told me what he wanted for them and said for her to show me where they were and to advise me that each was fully loaded and "ready to go" and that I would know what to do. They were and I paid her twice what she asked for them. A very neat man from "The Greatest Generation" and I very much miss him. All my best, Joe.
 
Recently I passed by a news story of a book being donated to a library...and upon clsoer inspection...it was found to be cut out for a pistol. With pistol included I believe.
 
"Recently I passed by a news story of a book being donated to a library...and upon clsoer inspection...it was found to be cut out for a pistol. With pistol included I believe."

True, but it was just a cheapie modern Italian replica of a single shot black powder percussion Derringer. Not worth much and not historic in any way.
 
be sure to check old boxes.
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