Free to a good home!

[hdougn]

Jim,

Sorry I have no other boxes, but knew this would be valuable to someone on the forum and not just collecting dust in my closet ( and adding to the ire of my wife who wants to throw away anything that hasn't been used in the last three months).
This is a great community and I just wanted to give back. Mike seemed like the most worthy.

 

[VM]

Special thanks again to hdougn - received box today and took some quick pictures. Funny how there are abrasions inside the box exactly where the adj. sight and hammer tip from my K38 are - Fits perfectly

 

[hdougn]

Pictures of K-38 in box

I wondered what those distortions of the box were from. (sorry for ending in a preposition)!

 

[D R Greysun]

So I have to wonder where the K22 that was in the bottom is as well as the K38 that came with the top?

D R

 

[hdougn]

Dazed and Confused!

Mr. Greysun,

Are you saying that the bottom portion of the box held a K-22?

I have no idea as to the history as I got the box and the Colt 45 Bisley 80 years after my great grandfather died. As I said it was still loaded! I know the box is not that old so someone placed the pistol in the box decades after his death.

Is the serial number on the bottom indicative of a K-22?

 

[hdougn]

Many thanks to Mike Kieffer (VM) who made a generous donation to the forum on my behalf after receiving the box.

 

[handejector]

It was passed down through my great grandmother and a line of women who never had a son.
My distant cousin wanted me to have it (I am the oldest male descentant ) and contacted my Mother to see if I would want it, DUH.
If you see it for sale I am dead.

I love it.



........and on giving the box to VM-
a beau geste for sure, hdougn.

 

[D R Greysun]

Mr. Greysun,

Are you saying that the bottom portion of the box held a K-22?

I have no idea as to the history as I got the box and the Colt 45 Bisley 80 years after my great grandfather died. As I said it was still loaded! I know the box is not that old so someone placed the pistol in the box decades after his death.

Is the serial number on the bottom indicative of a K-22?

That was my thinking when I post the comment, I think now however my thinking was unfounded. Very possible the box held a K38 with serial no K221140 of around 1954 vintage!

D R