I just found a needle in a Haystack!!!!

[weaselmeatgravy]

Yeah, that sounds like him, used to live in PA and then moved to AZ. Might have been another stop in his journey between PA and AZ, I forget.

Notice that the Ruger eagle on the envelope is the first style with 11 feathers. It changed to 9 fairly soon after, I think in the 1950s. To my mind, the scribbling on the envelope was the OG buyer's tracking of the Railway Express shipment, must have been from calling some office on his rotary phone!

These articles from the 1990's were with it when I bought it and also when I sold it. Were they still with it?

 

[Watertender]

This story just keeps getting better! Neat history of the journey of a beautiful Ruger pistol

 

[KWend54]

Yeah, that sounds like him, used to live in PA and then moved to AZ. Might have been another stop in his journey between PA and AZ, I forget.

Yes confirmed, the articles also come with the package!

 

[contender]

Now that's a heck of a good one to get. Congrats! I'd love to have one,, but my pockets aren't that deep. Maybe one day I'll find a little old widow lady who says; "My husband had these old guns & I want them gone,, what'll you give me?" And among the guns will be a salt cod boxed gun!

(A guy can dream,,, right?)

 

[chet15]

That isn't a hand typed letter. It is a regular printed form letter.
Chet15

 

[powder smoke]

Lots of Colburns in New Hampshire That clan has been around for many years!
May do some sniffing around! I Know many coldburns Peterborough is close to
where I come from. Happy hunting! ps

 

[KWend54]

Lots of Colburns in New Hampshire That clan has been around for many years!
May do some sniffing around! I Know many coldburns Peterborough is close to
where I come from. Happy hunting! ps

That's interesting I was searching this morning lol
found a possibility

 

[JAYDAWG]

The obit says he grew up in DC did three years in the Army and then moved to NH, making him 21+ish for the move.
I would bet this is not your guy, he would have been 16 and still in school in DC in 1949 when the gun was shipped.
Maybe an Uncle?
Just my observation.
Fun to research!
Keep us posted.
Cheers,
JAYDAWG

 

[44Squatch]

Yeah, that sounds like him, used to live in PA and then moved to AZ. Might have been another stop in his journey between PA and AZ, I forget.

West Virginia, I do believe …