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I was thinking today about how the art on ammo boxes is pretty poor. Federal remington etc is bland graphics and font. Fiochi is pretty decent Peter's weatherby and estate do a nice job as well. Actually federal has some cool retro boxes every know and than. When I go to gun shows you see a lot of boxes of old ammo with wonderful art. I have almost bought a few boxes of calibers I don't own. Same for other things I gave an old gun oil bottle with some painted ducks on it, it just pleasant to look at. Didn't know if any one else noticed this either or cared.Well Andy Rooney rant over
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10-17-2014, 01:23 AM,
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I like the old ammo boxes too. I'm not sure why companies don't do this anymore. They do spend a lot of time and money on packaging. I used to work for the company that makes Swingline staplers (well, buys from China now) and the old packaging on those were pretty cool. Some of the designers had a small collection of old boxes. They did a retro packaging on a couple of items but I don't think it any thing but make the designers happy.
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10-17-2014, 09:12 AM,
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All comes down to cost. More color equals more cost. A few people would go for the "cool" boxes but when it comes down to it, people only care about price.
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I've never really paid attention
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(10-17-2014, 09:12 AM)mikereddot Wrote: All comes down to cost. More color equals more cost. A few people would go for the "cool" boxes but when it comes down to it, people only care about price.
Yea you could even do cool stuff in a few colors. I found some old 32 rounds the ammo is total garbage the box was pretty cool though. I have a little collection of oil can and boxes. If you guts find any old stuff when cleaning out an old box, give me a heads up 
(10-17-2014, 09:12 AM)mikereddot Wrote: All comes down to cost. More color equals more cost. A few people would go for the "cool" boxes but when it comes down to it, people only care about price.
Yea you could even do cool stuff in a few colors. I found some old 32 rounds the ammo is total garbage the box was pretty cool though. I have a little collection of oil can and boxes. If you guts find any old stuff when cleaning out an old box, give me a heads up
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estate auction near Detroit:
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The auction sounds like it would be fun to walk through but I'm sure most of the items are out of my price range.
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Yea I was at a store and the owner had a few boxes. He had a bad case of they are for sale but always find a way nit to give me a price
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The best display of old boxes I've ever seen in one was is Shore Gallery's in Lincolnwood. Last time I was there the shelves were empty of everything, they told me they were moving. I haven't heard anything since. That was about 3-4 months ago.
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