A small book could be written on all the fake boxes, but on that particular box the makers logo was stamped in the bottom of the box, and had been scratched off. Also, that is not the type box used by Ithaca. The top lid of the original Ithaca shipping box was only half as deep as the bottom. The original ink stamping on the Ithaca box was a red/purple color and faded badly.
This one was bought off a list before the days of the internet, so I was going by the seller's description with no pictures. It was the first Ithaca box I had seen, so I had nothing to go on to tell if it was original or not. Also, it was bought about 25 years ago, and the price of the Ithaca with the box was only $300. After I found out the box was fake I kept is as a storage box, and as a reminder of the fakery out there.
The box was a Protecta-Gun storage box, which comes in a variety of sizes, but that one just happens to be almost exactly the same size of the original boxes. I talked with the guy that sells them, and he said he had been repeatedly approached about selling the boxes without the logo, but knew why they wanted the logo left off.
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