Working 1930 Winchester flashlight

RelicHunterPro · May 17, 2018

It was found in an old cellar of a ditched home it's been empty for awhile. It was found today before finding the creepy witch woman the story it in my 8 leaf clover post

RelicHunterPro · May 17, 2018

it's very cool modern batteries still work

Hawks88 · May 17, 2018

Nice find. Congrats!

jeff of pa · May 17, 2018

Cool ! Back about 2000 I dug one. Needless to say it was unusable.

Nice Find :icon_thumright:

vpnavy · May 18, 2018

Nice find RelicHunterPro. Now have a "lucky flashlight" to take with you when MD'ng. Thanks for sharing...

ivan salis · May 18, 2018

sweet working old relic

glass half fool · May 18, 2018

They don't make them like that anymore .Very nice

ToddsPoint · May 18, 2018

Winchester Co. diversified in the late teens and started making everything under the sun. Tools, ice skates, the list goes on and on. When the depression hit in '29 Winchester went under. John Olin bought Winchester and the first thing he did was eliminate the "other stuff" and went back to making just guns so your flashlight was made before 1931 or so. Gary

dts52 · May 18, 2018

Very cool find. My grandmother worked in the Winchester factory in New Haven, CT in the 20s. They made all kinds of cool stuff. She gave my parents matching side-by-side shotguns for a wedding present. Dad's was a 12 gauge, Mom's was a 16. They sold Mom's shortly after they were married as they needed the money to build their home (where I grew up). When we were early teens, my brother and I surprised Dad with a real treat... we refinished the stock on his gun - a really half-adzed job that ruined any collectors value, but done with the best intentions. My brother still has the gun so it doesn't really matter.
Winchester has fallen victim, like so many others to industrial over-seas competition. When I was in Southeast Asia during the most recent unpleasantries there, I could have bought Winchester 101s over-unders through the PACEX catalog for about $125 apiece (worth about 10 times that much now) but $125 was a boatload of money back then for me. They were being manufactured in Japan.
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