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Picture Page April 2012 At last, a Concord .45 ACP box........
Last month, the subject of my picture page write-up was the ammunition produced by a related trio of Long Island, New York reloading companies, The Dairt Co., Palmer Hicksville Plant, and The Concord Manufacturing Co. I was able to include pictures of only the Dairt and Palmer boxes, but because I had never encountered a Concord box for sale in my many years of collecting, I didn't have one in the collection. Thanks to a reader of last months picture page, I have been able to complete my collection of these Long Island boxes, and I can include this picture of the elusive Concord box now. What I found surprising was that the Concord Manufacturing Company box
was a standard blue
The cartridges in the Concord box include the usual mix of headstamps
that were found in the Dairt and Palmer boxes: RA and WCC 41 and 42, and
W.R.A.Co. .45 A.C.
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. . . . . The bottom of this Concord box is marked with the lot number 119 8, in a similar format and numeral style as the lot numbers on the Dairt and Palmer boxes that were discussed last month.
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Palmer
box that had been 'repurposed' by the addition of a green paste-on label and
the marking out of the word 'Concord' on the cartridge illustration on the
end flaps. This box provides graphic evidence regarding the progression of the
companies and the relationship between them, with Concord having succeeded
Palmer, and using the boxes on hand to package their cartridges prior to
purchasing their own labeled boxes, assuming they remained in business long
enough to use up the Palmer boxes. What I would like to determine now is
whether or not any 'true' Concord boxes exist that are not relabeled Palmer
boxes. Also, are there similarly relabeled Dairt boxes that were used by
Palmer? I'd appreciate hearing from anyone with variations of the boxes for
these three companies. 
Most
of these have been overstamped 'CONCORD RELOADS', and the resulting headstamps
are quite difficult to read. 
