Early shipping methods

[Craig Budgeon]

Dennis, you have rather high expectations for a service created by the bureaucracy, approved of by the politicians, and subsidized by us the taxpayer.

[Bill Murphy]

I think the boxes that Dudley mentioned were original Parker boxes. I didn't purchase any of them. I have wood boxes sent out by Parker Brothers into the late era. I have seen Parker boxes made of cardboard but I'm not sure they were used for shipping. My uncle sent my grandfather's Lefever E Grade pigeon gun to me about 1956, via REA, in a wooden box. It was only decades later that I saw an identical box at a Greenwich show, with Lefever labels. Unfortunately, I had trashed the box that my Lefever was shipped in.