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pdog72
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I went to a local auction last weekend with over 100 guns. There was only a couple Winchesters that didn’t turn out to be anything too special. I did find another prize that I was pleased with. Here’s my new (to me) Winchester 22K Copper flashlight. It looks great standing next to the aluminum one I already had. Do any of you know the age of these flashlights, ’30s, ’40s ??

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Cartridge boxes were marked ‘OLIN’ starting in 1946. I wonder if that rule applies to your flashlight.

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Pdog72, I’m really sticking my neck out on this one, because I don’t know for sure, but I was under the impression that the Winchester hardware stores went out of business around the time of the depression. Which would be early 1930’s. May be wrong. May be Winchester had a "parts clean up" until they were all gone, that lasted until the 1940’s. Just a guess. RRM

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This is from our new website:

During the war Winchester had borrowed heavily to finance its massive expansion. With the return of peace, the company attempted to use its surplus production capacity, and pay down its debt, by trying to become a general manufacturer of consumer goods: everything from kitchen knives to roller skates to refrigerators, to be marketed through “Winchester Stores.” They merged with the Simmons Hardware Company. The Winchester and Keen Kutter brands did business together during the 1920s but in 1929 they agreed to separate and returned to their core business.

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