ATTN: River City John, Sgt. John Chapman, F Trooper or whoever....

[Pitspitr]

I found some paper today that looks pretty close to the color of the paper on the one web site listed above. I went to Office Max and got their 30% recycled pastelpaper in ivory. Laying it beside the computer monitor it is just slightly yellower than the carbine label in the above link, but by far the closest color I've found

[FTrooper]

Hop,

I am VERY interested int he 5/40 project.  I knew a person working on it for his historic site but them heard no more.  I can get a museum quality copy of the 5 round box, with that we can back engineers the 40round package.

Chris Fischer
F-Troop

[G.W. Strong]

I am game for makeing up a few of these.

[G.W. Strong]

I got my 45/70 box patterned out. Now the question is where to find that brown cardboard/tackboard to make the boxes from. I made my prototype from regular white posterboard.

I also need to figuring out where and how the string is anhcored and how it opens the paper wrapper.

[Pitspitr]

Now the question is where to find that brown cardboard/tackboard to make the boxes from.

Get a legal pad and take the cardboard off the back.

[G.W. Strong]

That is a great idea! I will use my legal pad to make one. Then I need a more reliable source for more of these.

[SGT John Chapman]

Here Sir Is my answer to the issue. The boxes were old Cheyenne Pioneer Products Boxes. I made my labels in a page of 6. I put them on a photo copier that prints and dries the ink well. then I stain them with several coats of tea to reproduce the discoloring created by the non-acid free products, sunlight, and time. Most of the packaging was coated with a collagen glue that was much like thinned Elmers glue this is what gives a lot of the old packaging the faded orange color.

Most of the packaging, I believe, started as an off white/ buff color though.

[G.W. Strong]

Now that is what I am going for. Bravo.