A friend of mines buddy worked at IBM. He brought an IBM M1 or Garand, I don't remember which, into work one day. IBM management was not pleased, to say the least.
He innocently asked "What's the problem (pointing to the mfg. stamp) it's a company product."
Order mine a day after you, received them a day after you; looks like Ky Imports is pretty consistent on getting stuff out the door.
3 - Autorye (AI)
2 - International Silver (IS)
1 - Seymour Smith (SS)
1 - Union Hardware (U)
1 - Winchester (BW)
1 - National Postal Meter (MN)
1 - ?? (C-B with upside down T in the C with the cross bar of the T in the middle of the C)
Quite a bit of variation in the details of each depending on manufacturer.
No rust at all; small amount of cosmoline on all of them. Look like just what they said they were: unissued original magazines.
Now I just have to get something to use them in :-).
I got mine from Cole Dist. this week. Not sure of the exact day-the (small) box was left on the porch, by the front door. And my family comes and goes almost exclusively through the garage, so we didn't notice it.
I got the 'used' ones, but aside from a few scratches, I'm hard pressed to describe them as used. Not even the usual edge wear you'd expect from being carried around in mag pouches. And all coated in a thin layer of packing grease. Oh, and all were blued.
Only marking I recognize from your list is International Silver (IS).
Not for sale! The IBM's go on sale from the CMP NEXT October! (I need to take a remedial calendar-reading class.)
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A friend of mines buddy worked at IBM. He brought an IBM M1 or Garand, I don't remember which, into work one day. IBM management was not pleased, to say the least.
He innocently asked "What's the problem (pointing to the mfg. stamp) it's a company product."
Wish I'd been there for that.
Order mine a day after you, received them a day after you; looks like Ky Imports is pretty consistent on getting stuff out the door.
3 - Autorye (AI)
2 - International Silver (IS)
1 - Seymour Smith (SS)
1 - Union Hardware (U)
1 - Winchester (BW)
1 - National Postal Meter (MN)
1 - ?? (C-B with upside down T in the C with the cross bar of the T in the middle of the C)
Quite a bit of variation in the details of each depending on manufacturer.
No rust at all; small amount of cosmoline on all of them. Look like just what they said they were: unissued original magazines.
Now I just have to get something to use them in :-).
I got mine from Cole Dist. this week. Not sure of the exact day-the (small) box was left on the porch, by the front door. And my family comes and goes almost exclusively through the garage, so we didn't notice it.
I got the 'used' ones, but aside from a few scratches, I'm hard pressed to describe them as used. Not even the usual edge wear you'd expect from being carried around in mag pouches. And all coated in a thin layer of packing grease. Oh, and all were blued.
Only marking I recognize from your list is International Silver (IS).
I've got a friend looking for some. How much do you want for them?
Not for sale! The IBM's go on sale from the CMP NEXT October! (I need to take a remedial calendar-reading class.)
Note: All avatars and any images or other media embedded in comments were hosted on the JS-Kit website and have been lost; references to haloscan comments have been partially automatically remapped, but accuracy is not guaranteed and corrections are solicited.
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