1st gen SAA box?

[jphendren]

Hello,

Did 1st gen Colt SAA's come in a box?  I have never even seen a picture of one.

Jared

[St. George]

Yes.

They're on the flat side - black or a blue-black in the ones I've seen, and I've seen a couple of shelving units' worth of them - the damndest accumulation of first generation Colts you'd ever want to see.

Most original boxes don't survive well - that accounts for the truly serious prices on originals.

For that matter - most Colt boxes.

Cardboard of the time frame wasn't designed to last and last, like that of today - and the paper had a high sulphur level that caused its deterioration while you were looking at it.

Firearms of the era were designed to be used, too - so most boxes were discarded in favor of holsters.

If you see 'any' period revolver with its little cardboard box - Colt boxes looked like that.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[jphendren]

I found this image on Google image search, it fits the decription given above.

http://collectorebooks.com/gregg01/coltrevolver/DSC00360.jpg

Jared

[St. George]

Yup...

Now, imagine a couple of standard metal shelving units filled with them, and surrounded by 'real' Henrys and every model of Winchester and Colt-Burgess and Whitney and so on and so forth - all in a room that spans the width of a normally-sized basement.

That cleaning brush was supplied as an accessory - and there was also a blued 'L'-shaped tool with two differently-sized screwdriver ends - but it doesn't seem that all guns were shipped with one - though they're known to've been shipped with the Model 1873 and Model 1878.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[jphendren]

"Now, imagine a couple of standard metal shelving units filled with them, and surrounded by 'real' Henrys and every model of Winchester and Colt-Burgess and Whitney and so on and so forth - all in a room that spans the width of a normally-sized basement."

Your collection St. George

Jared

[Trailrider]

Not that I can afford a 1st Gen Colt's, but the boxes are absolutely out of my price range! 

[St. George]

No, not mine.

I know two guys locally with that sort of thing in their basements.

They started their collecting in the '50's - back when a pristine Sharps Carbine wouldn't bring a $5 bill...

I 'do' have some nice stuff, though.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[RRio]

I believe USFA's boxes are modeled after the original Colt boxes.