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This P-85 actually predates the P85 prototypes. It was built in the Ruger model/tool room. Serial number is V000022.
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If you wanted to purchase a new Ruger .22 pistol in 1949 all you had to do was to fill this out and send it in along with $37.50. A couple of questions are on this form that would not be politically correct to ask now.
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Federal Firearms License renewal.
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We will probably never know the answer to either question. I have another invoice, dated 1947, where the Ruger Corp. is returning a lot of these stampings to the same company.

In reference to an order from the Ruger Corp.
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Assignment for "improvements in an autoloading pistol".
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An engraved Ruger .22 Pistol (RST4), serial number 47698, was given to then Vice President Richard M. Nixon. The presentation was made in March of 1954 by Bill Ruger. Engraver unknown. Mother of pearl grip panels with a medallion in each side. This pistol is in the Nixon Library. A cleaning person d...

The 30-06 turned 100 in 2006. To commemorate the milestone Ruger offered 500 special Number one Rifles to mark the event. The original was designed and hand engraved by Master engraver Paul Lantuch. It sold ( 2006) at auction for just short of $10,000.00.

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A letter dated November 21,1945. Bill Ruger inquiring about applying for a patent on a semi-auto pistol to a law firm in Boston.
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On a trip to the US in 1957 Rex Applegate purchased components from Ruger, High Standard, Marlin, and Whitney to "find" their way to his Mexican arms company inside Mexico. These components were assembled into working guns and marketed in Mexico.
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