1903 Arms Chest Inventory List?

[rcathey]

If I run across one that’s on one of these cards, I’ll definitely be buying it and keeping that card. No doubt there.

[butlersrangers]

It will be a "single heat-treat receiver" .... oops ... don't want to start that discussion!

Get the rifle crate first and then fill it.

[Mk VII]

This is the sort of thing the SRS file entries are based on. An invoice by the issuing authority and a receipt by the receiving organisation would be generated too. The chests would probably have to be returned for reuse, which is why they,too, are serialed.

[rcathey]

I’ve googled various phrases and have not come across anything on these. Not so much as a picture of one.

As an earlier poster said, they’re not mentioned in Brophy either.

I must have the only 20 in existence haha. Perhaps too rare to be worth much. No trouble...they’ll store fine with the rest of my 1903 ephemera!

[browningautorifle]

The chests would probably have to be returned for reuse

Many of our containers were marked as "Reusable Container" so they didn't get broken down for scrap.

[rcathey]

Bumping this back up with some more pics. I reached out to Rock Island Auction to see if they'd seen them before. They replied that they were not interested in the items and left it at that. Oh well.

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[browningautorifle]

What this illustrates for us is that the rifles didn't seem to be shipped in crates by sequential number. They're all over the map, so when someone asks about an SRS check and suggests that this number was issued to a unit so "Mine likely was too"...it's not very likely at all. The serial numbers aren't too close. Not sequential.

[rcathey]

...so when someone asks about an SRS check and suggests that this number was issued to a unit so "Mine likely was too"...it's not very likely at all.

That's a great point, Jim. We often say, "if SRS does list some for one unit, yours likely wasn't issued there if it's not listed."
This definitely adds that second layer of, "a close number doesn't mean anything."

I feel honored, truly, to be able to buy and share interesting things like this.

[browningautorifle]

yours likely wasn't issued there if it's not listed

It would be you and for instance "Butlersrangers" that showed me that. This is excellent proof, I'm thinking these serials are of brand new rifles by the dates of shipment and then a second set of dates later showing transfer? (1909, 1918)...

[Mk VII]

No organisation, then or now, made/makes an effort to ship in sequential order, and any attempt to do so would be pointless.