Cast boolet box

[abunaitoo]

Remember back when cast boolets used to come in wooden boxes????
These don't have the original boolets, but do have similar ones.
Not sure what year, but I'm think 60"s.
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[Bad Ass Wallace]

I make these for bulk orders!

[smithnframe]

I’ve never bought a cast bullet in my life!

[farmerjim]

I bought a few when I started reloading. I still have the box half full.

[Texas by God]

Nice boxes!

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[remy3424]

I’ve never bought a cast bullet in my life!

Ditto

[SSGOldfart]

I make these for bulk orders!

Nice looking work! BAD ASS Wallace

[Scrounge]

Remember back when cast boolets used to come in wooden boxes????
These don't have the original boolets, but do have similar ones.
Not sure what year, but I'm think 60"s.
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Nope. Not sure if I'm not that old, or not that young. Dad made his own cast boolits, and I helped him make and reload with them, but didn't ever see store-bought cast boolits until recently.

Bill

[Winger Ed.]

Wooden boxes are pretty much long gone, but they used to be used for almost everything we have cardboard for now days.

When I was clearing out some stuff that came from my Grandparents estate, I found a couple of wooden slid top boxes
that the normal, grocery store size, block of Velveeta cheese used to come in back in the 1930's or so.

And also a small, wooden barrel. An Uncle told me it was the bulk pack container nails used to come in.
You could buy them by the pound, or a 50-60 pound keg.

[Mk42gunner]

Don't have any bullet boxes, but I've got an old Hercules powder box out in the barn. I bought it at an auction for something like $17.00.

IIRC it had a couple of lift arm latches that would fit my WD, which I wanted; but the real reason I bid was the box itself.

Robert

[abunaitoo]

I'm guessing there was a good size industry making wooden boxes.
Another job gone from history, and probably people didn't notice at all.

[samari46]

I've used old wood cigar boxes and after shave ones also. Frank

[Winger Ed.]

I'm guessing there was a good size industry making wooden boxes.
Another job gone from history, and probably people didn't notice at all.

All shipping boxes and cases for everything used to be wood.
It wasn't too terribly long ago that there wasn't any cardboard boxes.
And a lot of things came in cloth bags instead of paper or plastic sacks/bags in the old days.

As a kid, my (wooden) toy box was really cool, and I thought it was unique.
I thought it was the only one like it, until I saw a few dozen of them from the 1930's in my Grandparents barn.
It was one of the plain/simple boxes all the grocery and other stores used for everything up until the end of WWII.

The only thing special about mine was it didn't have a painted label saying, "Sun Ripened Tomatoes", "Concord Grapes", etc. on the side.

[Wayne Smith]

If you want small wooden boxes go to a cigar store. $1.00 apiece for empty ones at my local store.

[GregLaROCHE]

I make these for bulk orders!

I’ve seen those boxes here before. Nice work!

[Petrol & Powder]

All shipping boxes and cases for everything used to be wood.
It wasn't too terribly long ago that there wasn't any cardboard boxes.
And a lot of things came in cloth bags instead of paper or plastic sacks/bags in the old days.

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/\ YES, but that had pros and cons

Manufacturers had to make or buy boxes, crates, bags, etc. That added cost to the product plus it added bulk and weight to shipping.
From a consumer point of view, you got a box or bag that could be used for something else, but it added to the cost of the item. Sometimes the packaging was useful and could be re-purposed, sometimes it was just a burden to pay for and dispose.

It wasn't too long ago that milk and soda bottles were returned to a dairy or bottling plant to be re-used. Beer kegs are still reused.
There's a great story about Royal Dutch Shell arriving in an Asian port that was previously only served by Standard Oil. Shell arrived with bulk kerosene and no cans for retail sales. Shell assumed the customers would arrive with their old Standard Oil cans and re-use those cans. Turns out the the people used their old Standard Oil metal cans to make other items and they expected a new can with their purchase of kerosene. So Shell had kerosene to sell but no means to sell it. Shell immediately set up a facility to manufacture kerosene cans so they could sell their product!

In today's world, the tree huggers clamor about disposable packaging, waste, recycling, and everything else. The reality is these issues are driven by economics, not emotion.
We may see a shift back towards more permanent, recyclable packaging for distribution and sales; but not for the reasons the tree huggers believe.

[jimlj]

I read an article in (I think) Guns magazine about a manufacturer that ships cast bullets in wooden boxes.
When I was a kid mom bought flour in 25 or 50 pound cloth bags. The cloth got recycled into clothing for 5 boys and 2 girls. Baby food bottles got recycled for anything that would fit in them, and when mom wasn't looking BB gun targets.

[Petrol & Powder]

I make these for bulk orders!

That is some VERY nice work !
Well Done.