I can't imagine why someone would do this to a sweet little box? The paint is so thick, it looks like wood texture. It came with my newest Terrier, and looks to be the original box. Friends don't let friends do this! An abomination! Oh, the horror!
I can't imagine why someone would do this to a sweet little box? The paint is so thick, it looks like wood texture. It came with my newest Terrier, and looks to be the original box. Friends don't let friends do this! An abomination! Oh, the horror!
AAARRGH!!...My eyes!...Quick, somebody poke a sharp stick in my face to take the pain away!...Friends don't let friends do this! An abomination! Oh, the horror!
Barbarians!! At least we took our boxes, filled them with the wax paper, brochures, etc., set them on fire and floated them out in the pond while we took target practice and sank them.Confession time...
Y'all ain't gonna believe this but it be true.
Back in the day I worked in our department's armory. When new pistols were acquired, we immediately engraved our control number on the frame AND THREW THE BOX IN THE TRASH.
If the revolver was to get Goodyears, the magnas WENT INTO THE TRASH TOO.
I shot on our pistol team and I ordered myself a new nickel, model 19, 6 inch (circa 1988). When it arrived, I opened the box, took out the beauty and threw that box in the trash. I took off the target grips and was about to toss them but they had a lottery winning grain. "I'm gonna stick these back." I told my bud. "Why? They're a-dime-a-dozen!" he replied.
Those Smiths were wonderful pistols but the workhorse of their day. And treated as such.
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Those Smiths were wonderful pistols but the workhorse of their day. And treated as such.
*Confession time...
Back in the day I worked in our department's armory. When new pistols were acquired, we immediately engraved our control number on the frame AND THREW THE BOX IN THE TRASH.
If the revolver was to get Goodyears, the magnas WENT INTO THE TRASH TOO.
Let me preface this by saying that:
1. None of my 30+ guns is a "collector." I buy stuff to shoot, fill a niche, etc...
2. I hate clutter.
OK, now thats out of the way...
When I buy a gun I take it home, save the manual, do the warranty and the box goes in the trash. I have absolutely no use for boxes. I bought a Marlin 45-70 from a guy at the gun club. We haggled a bit and he kept saying "but it has the box and papers for the gun and the box for the scope." I said I should pay less cuz that's more stuff I have to dispose of.
I totally get saving the box if it is a collector gun.
The primary reason that boxes for old guns are valuable is that so many people threw them away. If everyone saved them they would be of little value. As for the OP's box, it isn't ever going to be 'original' again, but at least it is still with the gun. I would learn to live with it, and if for some strange reason I couldn't, I would sell it.
To move the topic forward, please show us your new Terrier. There are a lot of us that like to see Terriers.