old amo box cud be warldwar2 – $50
got this old amo box from grand pa and i need some extra cash to fix my truck mike xxx-xxx-xxxx.
Grandpa must be very proud of Sparky and his truck named Mike. He’s probably thinking, “THIS is why I fought in World War II — so that my grandson can have the freedom to illiterately advertise my memorabilia on Craigslist!”
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This Sparky is obviously a commie and a fascist. Selling national treasurz on Craigslist is just plain wrong. He should have used eBay.
1. WWII-era cud sounds even worse than vintage Crisco.
2. My Truck Mike was a failed seventies remake of My Mother the Car.
Mike was ultimately upstaged by his steam shovel, Mary Anne.
How did he go from there to Magic Mike?
I’m no militaria expert, but that looks like it could pre-date warldwar2.
I’m no militaria expert — but that looks like it could pre-date warldwar2.
it depends… was Warldwar2 before or after the Sapnishamericnwar? And did it feature General Custard?
Yes.
Gen. Custard in the library with the amo box.
Where a pickled Professor Plum pinched the pricey piece of pretty pine.
If you enlarge the picture you can read the writing on it. Interestingly, this is a box of Amway ammo from 1987.
Posted by Toonces, the LOLcat who could drive a truck (named Mike).
Living in “grand pa” I can attest that this is common cl etiquette.
Pass the cud, mike the truck is hungry for the warld!
Grand PA is still not as good as a CPA. Certification is everything, bitches.
I didn’t know there was a market for cud. Praise Jeebus! I can save the farm!
[militaria collecting corey]
Depending upon the text, that could be a highly sought-after item.
If it is only mundane, a shipping crate for cardboard-boxed ammo from one of the manufacturers, it would eBay in the $125 to $175 sort of range (depending upon mfgr/dates/how many get caught up in bidding etc.)
If those bottom lines of text–the ones resisting my puny efforts to resolve them–include wartime dates, government arsenal markings, that’s very different. As in selling for $250, $300, maybe $400–with a caveat.
After August 1945, America was very war-weary. Sub-contracts for war materiel were allowed to lapse, or to fall vacant, incomplete. Wooden crates like this had a negative value as salvage; they’d not bring in even one 1946 cent. So, such things would wind up in great piles, of no more value than refuse. Sometimes they would pile up in warehouses, and, over the course of time, no one knew why they were in the warehouse. The warehouse would then change hands, and the forgotten goods would be still there, sometimes refuse, sometime detritus, sometimes simply invisible through being Somebody-Else’s-Problem.
Which becomes germane to the point at hand in that, this is a rare, a very rare, bit of military history.* But it’s rare also in the same way a 1947 milk crate is rare.**
Which will not stop somebody who is dead keen on having this as part of a collection, or as an accent in a “man cave” from bidding it up and dropping $3-500 to own one, too.
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* I’ve been around militaria all of my life, and collecting it for half of that–never have seen a crate like this. And, I’ve seen cartons for GI-issue TP. I also used to have a sideline of buying surplus crates to salvage the oak and maple used, too.
**And, also, as easily faked. No great effort to cobble up a milk crate and label same “Ever-Fresh Dairy, Philadelphia, 1943”–the question be “why expend that effort?”
[/corey]
I figured someone was going to point out that this might actually have real value (and I also kind of figured it would be you, Cap’n!), which is why I very carefully and deliberately didn’t say anything about this not having any actual value. Instead, I just chose to be amused by the way in which Sparky advertised it.
Yeah, I blew up the pic and got:
Small Arms Ammunition
Loaded Shot Pamela
And that’s all I got, so I’m thinking that Mike, the Truck and his small-armed accomplice (Rexie) shot Pamela Anderson in the cud. This incident is what precipitated the start of WarldWahr2, Game of AmoBox.
Yeah, I agree Cap’n, and in this case, probably not. Looks like the red is the manufacturer, and the small print below is the city/state location and the ubiquitous “Made in U.S.A.
Mike’s Latin is very bad. If one does not mean “arca,” then it’s “buxus.”
I’ll refrain from linking “old,” “love,” “box,” and “larger pa” as “Avus vetus meretricis vuluae vendum” is a clear violation of the CL ToS.
(I’ll be under the pile of sandbags in the corner.)
Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant.
Amo!
A-a-a-a-mo!
Daylight come and we want some cud.
Grand pa fought during warldwar2.
(Daylight come and we want some cud.)
Need some cash to fix Mike the Truck.
(Daylight come and we want some cud.)
That’s nice. Swans mate for life and we’re having spaghetti for dinner.
I heart you, Duckie, and the average cat has twenty-four whiskers.
Paul, is you being a wahrwilfe?
“Warld”? Obviously Sparky is Scottish. But no one has discussed the most puzzling piece of evidence: why would he have a microphone in his truck? I am forced to come to the conclusion that Sparky owns an ice cream truck. But what use would a Scot owning an ice cream truck have for ammo?
The answer is obvious. Haggis has been banned in the United States since 1971 and the US Department of Agriculture has recently stated that the ban would not be lifted. What we are looking at is a Scot terrorist sleeper cell dedicated to fight the unjust government of the United States for refusing to allow import of their beloved national dish.
But let me quote from an eminent Scottish source:
“A haggis is a smaa fower-leggit Scots Hieland craitur that haes its lims on the tae side shorter nor the tither. This means that it is weel adaptit tae rinnin aboot the braes at a steady altitude, athoot aither gaun up or doun. Houaniver a haggis can be eith keppit bi rinnin aboot the brae conter gates.”
I think it couldn’t be clearer.
I love it when you speak scottish to me, FT, even if it sounds vaguely like gibberish on the interwebz*. Are you wearing your kilt?
*it may also sound like gibberish in real life, but at least I get the full package, if you know what I mean!
heh heh.. She said package…
Yes, I am 12, why do you ask?*
*This may not be true…
I wouldn’t even begin to try to guess what a French-speaker using a Scottish accent would sound like, let alone how to write it. It would be a real mess.
It’s FT has the truth of it. Sure an’ I’m hopin’ tae git a wee glimpse o’ the package under that kilt. It’s fond of the kilt I am, why I’m always after sayin’ it: up with kilts!
Are ye a ruhe scotts or a silkie? I agree! Up with the kilts!
Innuendo!
Crate expectations.
It was the best of ammo, it was the worst of ammo. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of Sucking at Craigslist. There was a grand pa who fought in a war that cud of been in France, and I need some cash for my truck, Mike, and I can’t type English.
Kelli, CJ, have you thought about starting your own pre-school for perfect children? I didn’t think so. Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, warldwar2 Vets!