| Gruen parts box [message #14703] |
Thu, 01 April 2021 01:37  |
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Ephemerald
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With discussions of what material some boxes are made of in mind, I was taking a closer look at one of my parts boxes, one that's damaged so I seldom touch it, but I noticed that on the underside there is clearly printed word...like a newspaper?....so I just wanted to say some of the "leatherette" skin on some the parts boxes seem to be made from recycled newspaper!...or something like a page from a book, maybe. Anyways thought it was interesting and funny 
Matthias
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| Re: Gruen parts box [message #14713 is a reply to message #14711] |
Fri, 02 April 2021 07:10  |
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Ephemerald
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Registered: October 2018
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Gary- like 44 Gruen ad says.. the x ray machine that they dropped from the sky!
Jenneke- no way would I tear the box up. But I did daydream about it, and that there was actually a map underneath to the records, in the landfill.... I'm confident in dating most of my parts boxes so no need to go ballistic. This one is from 1928 to 1929.
They started out originally leather in 1925. And they released certain parts boxes shortly after the calibres were released so jeweler's could repair, here this explains some of it, luckily some of those calibres were in existence just a small window of time.
Matthias
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