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    NOS "wrapped" Carbine Magazine

    I thought I'd seen just about every type of wrapping that was used on M1icon Carbine mags. Is the one pictured here common? I'm guessing it was part of an inspection and "re-pack" program that was done Post War. Has anyone seen these before? Thanks! - Bob
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    Almost looks like wax dipped medical gauze. First I've seen that.
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    I've seen several wrapped in the waxy gauze material. They aren't as common as the normal treated paper wrapped magazines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Dickicon View Post
    I've seen several wrapped in the waxy gauze material. They aren't as common as the normal treated paper wrapped magazines.
    Do you recall if any of them were individually labeled like this one? These are apparently WII made magazines that were possibly inspected and repackaged in 1953. - Bob

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    Depends on where it was done. Many different wrappings on magazines that were inspected during the 50's. From cellophane in Red or Yellow, Brown paper, White paper to wax mummied ones like this. Those that had a poor finish were Parkerized. All were WW2 made 15 round magazines. No other 15 round magazines were made for the US military post war. But the amount of those made is very high. I think the figure I read was like 100 magazines for each carbine. That would be like 260,000,000 magazines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce McAskill View Post
    That would be like 260,000,000 magazines.
    You know the number was high when we can still find brand new mags after 70 years and they're not really scarce.

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    inspected during the 50's.
    I wonder if this was part of the long term storage plan that was instituted for carbines such as "Canning"? This looks better than the original impregnated preservative paper that came with them.
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    I guess I need to do some further reading in Ruth's books. It's probably in there somewhere, but I've never seen an individually repackaged and labeled M1icon Carbine magazine before.
    Bruce, have you got any pictures? Thanks! - Bob

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    At the Tulsa show some years back I saw about 2 dozen of these. they were repacked in the 50's like a lot of ammo was as well and they bear the repack date after inspection....

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    No Bob I don't. But years ago I bought about 60 magazines in a large cardboard box marked 100 .30 carbine magazines. Inside they were stacked neatly and all mixed as to what they were wrapped in. About 60% were in cellophane. The rest in Brown or White paper and a handful were waxed and wrapped. I think I had about 10 that were in paper and were Parkerized. I couldn't say no to them at .25 cents each back in 1982.

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    Bob,

    Maybe check with Colin. Evidently he bough several crates when he was assigned to Europe; and sold at nice prices through the CMPicon forum.

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