Richard,
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I have several boxes of paper AA's in boxes like that.
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What are you talking about. The Winchester/Western AA was introduced as a compression formed plastic shell with a one-piece plastic wad in 1965. Winchester/Western introduced their compression formed hull with Mark 5 wadding in 1964 --
The AA was introduced in 1965 in 12-gauge trap loads and 12- and 20-gauge Skeet loads --
In the early years the Winchester branded AAs came in a white box with the AA logo in red and the Western branded AAs came in the white box with the AA logo in yellow.
1970 saw the introduction of the .410-bore AA shell and the 28-gauge AA was introduced in May 1971. The AA was still marketted under both of Olin's ammunition company names. For 1972 they added the black Handicap Trap AAs. In 1975 Olin began easing away from the two seperate ammunition lines and the white boxes began being marked Winchester-Western and the AA logo was red.
That same year they dropped the Super Speed heavy loads and both Winchester and Western branded heavy hunting loads were called Super-X. Oh the shame of it!!!