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Sturm, Ruger & Co. original corporate seal. An employee retrieved it from the trash several years ago. The bronze disc is worn but still makes a clear mark.

Simply FANTASTIC !!!!! That is a treasure to go along with Bill Ruger's first FFL.. that is great Don!
FT44

Don, how unique is this! Why would anyone throw this away, probably did not realize the importance. Don, I have read your book twice and now I am still excited about what you are showing us. Great stuff from your collection. Thanks for sharing.
Brass Frame/Lee E

Do you have the stamp? If so can I bring your latest book to DACA show to stamp it? Is a new book in your plans?!

Brass Frame wrote:Don, how unique is this! Why would anyone throw this away, probably did not realize the importance.
Brass Frame/Lee E

That's nothin"!! You should hear about the historically important guns that were scrapped!
Chet15

Over 5000 Maxi's and two "pallets" of Hawkeye's and Hawkeye parts that I know of for sure.Coogs.

RocDoc, I will take the stamp to Dallas in April. You can get a good look at it. It was the property of the legal dept. I would imagine it was to them like discarding a well used stapler. I would think the decision to destroy barreled receivers & Hawkeyes & Maxis would have come from higher up.

Pictures of the well used 1949 seal.

Don, you are right about it just being a worn out tool. As Jack Behn once told me when I asked him about them disposing of something, he chuckled and said "To us its just a widget, it ain't Romantic to us like it is to you collectors".
FT44

Just wish they'd have saved those single-digit autos that I'd heard they scrapped.
Those could have been put on Ruger auctions and done well for a great charity....and made a few happy collectors as well.
Chet15