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Police Case, My New Purchase


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What do you experts think of this item?: http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

 

http://www.gunbroker.com/auction/ViewItem....p?Item=16115789

 

Other than missing a latch, the case is quite nice and appears to beoriginal, at least from what I can see. Alll details match those in Tracie Hill's book and it looks too old to be a repro. If it were a repro, I figured that no one would leave their drum stored in it and leave marks.

 

I was surprised that no one else found it and bid on it since these cases seem to go high on evilBay. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/tongue.gif

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Looks like you got a good deal. The case is an exact copy of the cases Fox makes. Yours shows age. At that price you cant go wrong. Any label on case?
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Greg Fox makes the best cases I've seen in a long time. He will be at Knob Creek in a couple weeks. He makes the FBI/Police style case and he also make the Indiana style flat case that is a rarity. His work from what I've seen and held is first class. As good if not better then the originals. Greg is on this board but off hand I cannot remember his email. If I can find it I'll post it. Or he may see this post and respond, if he's not busy getting ready to go north to Kentucky.
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That's a great price on a great looking original thompson case. Find you another matching latch and get someone probably at a shoe shop to install it for you. Make sure he knows what he's doing. I think you can still find this type on latch. I found one at an old music store. They went on musical instruments cases.

 

The long cleaning rod is hard to find. You never see them for sale. Probably worth $200 by itself.

 

Sometimes the labels are hard to find. Look around the edge of the rear top and bottom.

 

You made a great buy i have to cases and paid more than that

 

good luck

steve

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