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Repro pellet boxes and tins
There's a guy on the auction site selling repro BSA pellet boxes from the pre-WW1 era (and various pellet tins). For the boxes he's scanned and printed the panels and stuck them on the sides and top/bottom of new boxes about the same size as the original, and sells them flat, unfolded, to keep the cost down.
They don't look too bad (though not great either) and at £4.50 will set you back at least a couple of hundred quid less than buying an original - if you can find one! I'd say the seller hasn't been greedy when it comes to pricing, but neither are they proper facsimiles - more like crude approximations of the originals.
In a way it's surprising that nobody has done this before, or that more people aren't doing it to a high standard. The original artwork is so attractive, well out of copyright, and the cost of reproducing it must be pretty low with today's technology.
It's only a shame it hasn't been done better, like the excellent Webley pistol boxes available now. I would happily pay, say, £15 for a decent reproduction of the original pllet box - one where it wasn't immediately obvious it was a reproduction.
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