Pass The Screwdriver, Please
Greetings Jeppo,
I've three Model 669s, two NIB, one being the first production-run M669 (pictured) (if ever there was a reason not to discharge a firearm methinks this would rank), and one bearing TAE0080 (roughly, give or take, plus or minus, the 80th M669).
All three have a four-pack of accessories: the ever-important and appropriately sized cleaning rod (~5.125 in.; 134mm), mop, copper brush, screwdriver (that ONLY for the life of me would I employ, especially on a new pistol); and, the orange-ish fire-solution suppression device (an accessory that only a few others, thank goodness, have claimed is for hearing protection)(Yes, really). And a bunch of little pieces of paper whose primary goal seems to be selling more S&W stuff.
Unfortunately, Jeppo, the exterior of your box was unseen in your images. Nevertheless, YOU can see it. By the time the M669 went into production former owner Bangor Punta had been absorbed by Lear Sigler, the latter thus displacing the former on the box's exterior. Therefore, your box exterior should reference the high-flying Lear Sigler where one would formerly find Bang-The-Drum . . . er, oops, sorry . . . Bangor Punta.
One last "box" point: the S&W product label on my very first M669 is hanging onto the box by the hair of its chinny, chin, chin. Thus, I can easily see the label on your box as having fallen, unknown in place and time, from the box to which it'd once been affixed.
Ah, the M669 . . . Highly concealable in many areas of the human body, its 13 rounds (12+1) ready at the call.
The M669 followed one of the hottest Smith & Wessons, the Model 469 (of which nearly 100,000 were produced, so great the demand), which was likewise retired when the M669 came on the scene, itself being replaced (after roughly 56,000 units were produced) by the Model 6906 (add a zero; move the first six to just behind the zero and, viola, a four-digit "new" firearm).
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Later.
