Getting intriguing Early Standard Auto with Salt Cod Box

[KWend54]

I Posted a picture of the Standard Ruger I recently got, with the Salt Cod box…… the story gets more interesting!
In researching the gun according to John Dougan's The Vintage Years I happened across this paragraph:

This pistol serial number is 2127!!!!!
How about that!
So I'm wondering if the documentation on the Cod box and corresponding letters were from serial number 0144, which apparently was returned and 2127 was its replacement on 1/24/1950????
Any thoughts?

 

[hittman]

Hope you get 0144 too

 

[KWend54]

Hope you get 0144 too

lol
What do you think Ruger did with one of the early ones returned and they replaced?

 

[JAYDAWG]

Super cool. Adds to the story of the gun.
You got a neat piece of Ruger history here!!

Cheers,
JAYDAWG

 

[JAYDAWG]

lol
What do you think Ruger did with one of the early ones returned and they replaced?

I would bet they repaired them if they could. Things were pretty tight back then, and WBR was known to be frugal.
Hopefully someone here with more knowledge than I chimes in.

Kinda interesting, I have #2027 and it was shipped November 1954!!! Maybe it was sent in for a repair, got replaced and shipped later??

Fun stuff.
JAYDAWG

 

[weaselmeatgravy]

Wow, that is also very cool. I sold #2127 in 2007, and I just checked that book, and it is copyright 2008, so I guess I can forgive myself for not knowing this!

 

[arcticruger]

Man, good stuff!

 

[mr.deerstalker]

awsome info....

 

[Watertender]

Great information all the way around. This is a unique pistol in many ways and a piece of early Ruger history