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Friend of Mine Finds Some 1945 Ammo in The Ceiling of Her New House
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alan226
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They used that stamp from 1911 to 1951. Highly collectible.
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Or a pile of used razor blades.
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Most likely brass, or gold plated (some were) not solid gold. Brass is easy to solder/braze. Plating can be inexpensive, more so back then. Like gold-plated Marlin triggers.
Edit: From what I've read, Gold-plated front sight models also came with gold-filled lettering.
Her example looks tarnished, which gold won't do. Photo a little blurry and may just be dried lube or preservative... Also a long, cylinder pin model. Should be 8-banded knurling, not 4 though...
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Yeah, brass. Brass is readily available and easy to work. A lot of folks who need replacement front sights over the years have gotten one using a hacksaw, a file, and an old key back when "aftermarket" meant "head out to the garage and see if anything will fit."
You'll see it on old Webleys a lot, the kind that had screw-adjustable front sights.
TOM1960
Banned
Happened in Saugus a while back. Young couple bought an older home and it was plagued by drafts and poor insulation. An energy audit turned up an exterior wall with no insulation and filled with old, rusty guns. Couple turned the guns over to the cops. The cops told them that their home was once owned by a Winter Hill gang hitman!
one-eyed Jack
Manufacturer
I had a H&R 9 shot for a while way back when. I remember it being tip-up or tip-down. I think. Traded it with one of my pals for a POS H&R .32 revolver. That's how we got to shoot many different guns. We just traded back and forth, usually at school. Jack.
I once dated a woman that found $168K in cash in the wall of her house in Cleveland. Google it. I'm the one that counted it.
Nice. You can take an SOS pad and scrub the blade to get rid of any red rust. The soap in the pad neutralizes the rust and the steel wool wont scratch the blade. Wipe down with mineral oil and it’ll look wonderful.
TOM1960
Banned
I have heard of such things happening on occasion. Reminds me of that early 1970s film "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot", where a fortune in stolen cash was hidden within the walls of a small church.
AHM
NES Member
Put down your beahs, guyz.
Saugus PD are on a never-ending quest
to link the guns to decades-old crimes
by tracing their serial numbers.
Saugus Man Finds Guns Stashed In Home Of Late Winter Hill Gang Mobster
A Saugus homeowner found a stash of guns in his ceiling during renovations. The guns are believed to belong to the late Winter Hill Gang mobster who used to live there.
boston.cbslocal.com
Hmmm.
I bought our household box cutter that is essentially this design at a hamfest:
One day I used it to cut something that got schmutz on the blade,
and I eventually (maybe not even promptly)
used the scrubby side of a Scotch-Brite® scrub/sponge to clean it up.
I didn't in-turn do a post-cleaning oil wipedown (with say 3-in-1),
because I didn't think scrubbing with the pad left anything objectionable on the blade.
(I don't recall wetting the pad, and neither was it wet from the sink).
But The Bride assumes those pads are impregnated with something
because with no special care they don't grow bacteria like a vanilla sponge.
I also now see that the plastic wrap on an unopened Scotch-Brite
says not to use on stainless steel.
NFW ChiCom X-Acto-style blades are stainless,
but what up with that?
A while after I "cleaned" the box cutter blade array,
I discovered that it was rusting
wherever the pad had touched it - not from the schmutz.
I went nuts on it with something (maybe even just paper towels) and 3-in-1,
and the rust went away never to return.
But to this day you can see where the tipmost few blade segments
are discolored from the rust.
My father had a big supply of industrial - not kitchen - steel wool.
Still in the original cardboard, I think.
Never rusted, but neither did it contain any soap.
He wouldn't have owned it if it bestowed crud on whatever was getting scrubbed.
@Sterg, you definitely said to wipe down with oil after scrubbing.
And you said steel wool not some plastic scrubby.
But I would not use any modern kitchen scrubbing product
on tools, guns, knives without serious research.
Something picked up from a purely construction aisle of Owe's or Home Labyrinth -
yeah I'd do that after reading all the labeling.
I'm sorry if you guys can see immediately how I failed,
and it had nothing to do with subtle sponge additives.
But I'd hate for OP's antiques to get scrod like my box cutter did.
(If my story is legit, it makes you wonder how come
we're not all dead from something
getting on all the pots we cook with; eh?)
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AHM
NES Member
Now that it's brighter out,I bought our household box cutter that is essentially this design at a hamfest:
I can see that it's an Xiao Fang XF-328 Cutter, w/ Autolock.
(No translation for the four (Chinese?) characters on the label.
It does have "RAZOR SHARP BLADES
" in English molded into the plastic body on the flip side).No direct hits under Google, although Google Images thinks "xf-328"
might match pages of subtly different cutters on Alibaba,
Amazon for Canadians (eh),
and the mobile page of made-in-china.com (no joke!).
If I ever sell this,
it'll be priced as a one-of-a-kind antique
worth more than any ol' ceiling guns.
one-eyed Jack
Manufacturer
I saw a box full of those on the ground at the Acton transfer station the other dy. Jack.Put down your beahs, guyz.
Saugus PD are on a never-ending quest
to link the guns to decades-old crimes
by tracing their serial numbers.
Saugus Man Finds Guns Stashed In Home Of Late Winter Hill Gang Mobster
A Saugus homeowner found a stash of guns in his ceiling during renovations. The guns are believed to belong to the late Winter Hill Gang mobster who used to live there.
Hmmm.
I bought our household box cutter that is essentially this design at a hamfest:
One day I used it to cut something that got schmutz on the blade,
and I eventually (maybe not even promptly)
used the scrubby side of a Scotch-Britero® scrub/sponge to clean it up.
I didn't in-turn do a post-cleaning oil wipedown (with say 3-in-1),
because I didn't think scrubbing with the pad left anything objectionable on the blade.
(I don't recall wetting the pad, and neither was it wet from the sink).
But The Bride assumes those pads are impregnated with something
because with no special care they don't grow bacteria like a vanilla sponge.
I also now see that the plastic wrap on an unopened Scotch-Brite
says not to use on stainless steel.
NFW ChiCom X-Acto-style blades are stainless,
but what up with that?
A while after I "cleaned" the box cutter blade array,
I discovered that it was rusting
wherever the pad had touched it - not from the schmutz.
I went nuts on it with something (maybe even just paper towels) and 3-in-1,
and the rust went away never to return.
But to this day you can see where the tipmost few blade segments
are discolored from the rust.
My father had a big supply of industrial - not kitchen - steel wool.
Still in the original cardboard, I think.
Never rusted, but neither did it contain any soap.
He wouldn't have owned it if it bestowed crud on whatever was getting scrubbed.
@Sterg, you definitely said to wipe down with oil after scrubbing.
And you said steel wool not some plastic scrubby.
But I would not use any modern kitchen scrubbing product
on tools, guns, knives without serious research.
Something picked up from a purely construction aisle of Owe's or Home Labyrinth -
yeah I'd do that after reading all the labeling.
I'm sorry if you guys can see immediately how I failed,
and it had nothing to do with subtle sponge additives.
But I'd hate for OP's antiques to get scrod like my box cutter did.
(If my story is legit, it makes you wonder how come
we're not all dead from something
getting on all the pots we cook with; eh?)
pretty cool.
i have some .45 that was made in the 1930's....
i keep it for nostalgia.
but that many boxes, in pristine shape, i bet a collector would pay some $$$ for those
skinner has some militaria aucitons, see if they will take it to auction off
i have some .45 that was made in the 1930's....
i keep it for nostalgia.
but that many boxes, in pristine shape, i bet a collector would pay some $$$ for those
skinner has some militaria aucitons, see if they will take it to auction off
TOM1960
Banned
OK, good. Thanks! I was just a kid when I saw that film many years ago. Don't remember all the details.
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