Winchester LEADER Staynless series ~ vintage mini shot shell box

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HotForShot Winchester LEADER with hunter and quail graphic ~ vintage mini shot shell box No handling charge for multiple items shipped in same package. Thanks for looking. These approximately 1/2 scale facsimile, measures 2 & 1/2" square on the face panel and has a block inside. Miniatures like these were made for decoy carvers and displays but now they are popular for collecting and viewing the vintage graphics.They look like small salesman samples and display well in any shot shell collection. I don't make fakes or forgeries. These are small scale replicas of the originals not intended to fool anyone or be deceiving as to their manufacture. These quality small boxes are great in a display by themselves or mixed in with full size shell box collections. They have incredible detail, just like the originals they are modeled from, and they make highly affordable examples of boxes that sell sometimes for hundreds of dollars for the originals at a fraction of the cost. Boxes are made to allow the average person that appreciates the old vintage graphics a way to enjoy them without taking out a second mortgage on their home. They look like small salesman samples and display well in any shot shell collection. I don't make fakes or forgeries. These are small scale replicas of the originals not intended to fool anyone or be deceiving as to their manufacture. They are made by a collector for collectors. These boxes are empty and never contained any shells of any kind. Large selection available of miniature replicas of WINCHESTER, WESTERN SUPER-X, PETERS, REMINGTON, US CARTRIDGE, HOLIDAY, AUSTIN AND ROBIN HOOD AMMUNITION and OTHERS. Contact me for web site to view variety. HotForShot End of an Era Once shotshells boxes were graced with lovely typefaces, ornate designs and artwork of game animals, dogs, hunters and shooting scenes. They were something to admire during the lulls between decoying ducks. Today, some of those shotshell boxes, though fashioned only of wood pulp and ink, command prices of thousands of dollars as collectibles. The number of shotshell brands, and lines within brands, declined as small manufacturers were consolidated into a handful of large companies during the 1900s. And, an agreement between ammunition manufacturers and the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1925 led to phasing out shotshell loads and standardized those retained. By the 1960s, the ammunition industry in America was dominated by two companies, both with early histories in the manufacture of gunpowder - the Olin and DuPont companies. Today there are essentially only three major ammunition manufacturers left in the U.S.: Remington, Winchester and Federal. Visually appealing shotshells boxes featuring game animals, vanished with the arrival of modern-design trends in the 1960s, and the control of ammunition manufacturing by corporations and investment groups whose directors probably never had seen a blue-winged teal in nuptial plumage. By the end of the 1950s, and certainly by the 1960s, shotshell boxes had become esthetically uninspiring. Ammunition manufacturers were eager to promote their product as new, up-to-date, modern, the best science and technology could conjure up in a laboratory of men in white smocks, and the design of shotshell boxes reflected that marketing philosophy. The magic and romance was gone. The last breath for wildlife art on shotshell boxes came in the early 1970s on shotshell ammunition sold by Holiday gas stations featuring colored hunting scenes with mallards, canvasbacks, Canada geese, snow geese, cottontail and ruffed grouse painted by wildlife artist Les Kouba. Target load boxes depicted trapshooters and a bluerock being shattered. Holiday shotshells were initially made by the Alcan Cartridge Company of Alton, Illinois, and later by CIL Industries, a Canadian ammunition manufacturer. Something intrinsically important was lost when hunting became yet another spor... read more

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