Who manufactured the blue picture boxes?

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Such as for the Registered Magnum and the .38/44 Heavy Duty revolvers?

For reference, photographs of my .38/44 Heavy Duty picture box. An obvious hole in my collection is the lack of a Registered Magnum in its original blue picture box.

C C Taylor & Co of 17 Oak Street in Springfield manufactured the earlier cardboard boxes, but these blue picture boxes are of a different composition and more complex. It still may have been C C Taylor & Company, but was it?
 

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In answer to my question, a very good source of all things Smith & Wesson indicated that the reason why we know that C C Taylor & Co did the earlier boxes is because there are records indicating fees paid for services provided by C C Taylor & Co to Smith & Wesson. These blue picture boxes have no obvious outlay from Smith & Wesson to a vendor during this specific time frame, but they still may have been manufactured by any of the various box manufacturers in the Springfield, Massachusetts area in the 1930s or manufactured internally by Smith & Wesson.
 

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