Plastic Box Question

[Highstandardguy]

I’ve noticed that some of my Mark II plastic boxes have a flat section molded on the end of the box for the label and some are just pebbled like the rest of the box. Most have been bought used so I can’t validate that they’re in the original box. Does anyone know if there is a significance to this? I was thinking that maybe the ones without the label area were individual boxes purchased from Ruger.

BTW, the only way I’ve been able to get a label to stay on one of the pebbled boxes is to lightly sand the label area so the glue has something to grip. Otherwise the label just falls off after a few weeks.

 

[Highstandardguy]

I saw a post on another forum that indicated the early plastic box models had the label on the cardboard mailer and not on the plastic box. Is that what I'm seeing?

 

[contender]

Many of the early boxes did not have a smooth place for a label. Later ones did. I think you are correct in the issue being the label adhesion.

 

[chet15]

Yes...the first plastic boxes were shipped with a brown outer cardboard sleeve, on which the label was pasted. Now you get the label on the end of the plastic box and no cardboard sleeve.
Chet15