Model 10 box anomaly-weirdness

[Docneeley]

A gentleman brought in a model 10 blue box he ahd told me about. I didn't really understand until I saw it. Everything about the box is normal until you look at the lettering on the end of the box. It says "W&S" in the gold lettering. Were these errors common? I've seen a ton of S&W boxes but this is a first. Thanks for comments. Doc

 

[GF]

If you turned it over it'd say "S & W".

Post a pic if you can, we like odd boxes and guns.

GF

 

[linde]

A gentleman brought in a model 10 blue box he ahd told me about. I didn't really understand until I saw it. Everything about the box is normal until you look at the lettering on the end of the box. It says "W&S" in the gold lettering. Were these errors common? I've seen a ton of S&W boxes but this is a first. Thanks for comments. Doc

Did it look anything like this?

Don't believe there were too many made with this error in the print set-up, but obviously there was more than one.

If you turned it over it'd say "S & W". Post a pic if you can, we like odd boxes and guns. GF

I don't believe turning it over will help

Russ

 

[Fat Old Guy]

Those are the little known boxes that were specially made for the distributors Woczowski and Schmedlap.

 

[Texas Star]

Doubt that it means, "Webley & Scott".

But if you turn it over, it reads, "S&M". I believe they sold these guns/boxes to readers who bought a book then called, "Fifty Shades of Blue."

They were going to cast Grace Kelly to play the kinky damsel, but she married Prince Ranier and became Her Serene Highness, Princess Grace of Monaco and never had to act again.

 

[DCWilson]

These were the boxes made up at special request for dealers who stored their inventory against a mirrored wall and needed to read the labels without pulling the boxes out for inspection.

More seriously, this just looks like a box plant printing error that happened when a dyslexic employee set up the photo mask wrong side out. (Which doesn't explain the correctly oriented ampersand, but nobody knows which way those point anyway.)

 

[A10]

Ah, the interwebs.....full of great and accurate information......it really IS like a series of tubes!

 

[dant]

Once again, "people making things for other people....." **** happens...
and yes, these 'anomolies are collected and sought after by some, me, I thinks its a simple error and will NOT pay any premium for my fellow mankinds 'faux pas'.........but it is kinda neat really,bet most were "caught" before shipped ( QC)?? and simple thrown away, scrapped......

 

[Engine49guy]

They say S&W didnt waste material,
I wouldnt toss them either.

 

[Fat Old Guy]

Once again, "people making things for other people....." **** happens...
and yes, these 'anomolies are collected and sought after by some, me, I thinks its a simple error and will NOT pay any premium for my fellow mankinds 'faux pas'.........but it is kinda neat really,bet most were "caught" before shipped ( QC)?? and simple thrown away, scrapped......

Misprinted money commands a premium price. I know that when I was a kid I came across a few mis-struck coins and at least one bill with a printing error. Alas, neither I nor my parents had the wisdom to set those aside. My father was one of those who believed that if he didn't want something that no one could want it and simply did not understand collectors. If I had kept that money, I doubt if I could retire but I could probably buy another gun.

 

[Fat Old Guy]

They say S&W didnt waste material,
I wouldnt toss them either.

Hey, they were just cardboard boxes. Who the heck collects cardboard boxes? Especially back in the 60s and 70s.

It's like the comic books I had when I was a kid. I'd get them and read them 10 or 15 times and then take them over to Kenny's house where he'd read them and I'd read his new ones and Bobby would come over with his comics and he'd read mine and Kenny's and we'd read his. And so on. After a week the covers were falling apart. I know for a fact that some of the ones that I had are worth hundreds of dollars in MINT condition. Sadly, mine didn't stay mint for very long.

The same is true for baseball cards. I'm sure that more than a few Mickey Mantle rookie cards wound up in the spokes of a bike.

 

[Wiregrassguy]

Amen, Brother, amen.

 

[Docneeley]

Did it look anything like this?

Don't believe there were too many made with this error in the print set-up, but obviously there was more than one.



I don't believe turning it over will help

Russ

Exactly like that. Must me a few out there then.

 

[JSR III]

As others have stated, merely a printing error. S&W did not waste anything and shipped the gun anyway. Back then the box was merely something to protect the gun until it got to the gun store. Most times when you bought a gun back then you let them keep the box and bought a holster to take her home in.

No one ever thought of going to the range or the back forty for that matter wearing your gun on your hip in a box.