Correct box?

[Montanajim]

What is the correct box for my combat masterpiece SN 267xxx, made in approximately first quarter 1956?

Thanks,

J

 

[handejector]

I'm assuming you mean K267xxx. The K is part of the serial number.
It almost certainly shipped in a gold box printed for the 6" guns with a white paper label glued on one end with "Combat Masterpiece" and 4" printed in blue ink.
The earliest blue boxes appear about the time your gun was made. I don't know how early blue boxes came to be for CMs, so it may be possible the original box was blue.

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[glowe]

All Combat Masterpiece boxes I have seen were originally made for the long barreled Masterpiece revolvers and over-labeled. This one, for sn 102XXX had a compartment and I have seen others with this feature, but do not know if it was added by an owner or came that way from the factory??

Your revolver would precede the introduction of the blue box by a year or so. There was a starburst blue box that was introduced in 1954, but have not seen many, plus none for a Masterpiece. The standard two piece box that was introduced with the advent of numbered models were manufactured from 1957 on. The gold boxes were used into the 1960s, overlapping the blue box production.

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