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Danny A

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Hey guys, I'm new here,so I'll try not to be long winded. I own an MBC box top and bottom. Have had for abt 2 yrs now. I just found some identifying marks on the top box. It has the company name followed by a stamped 72 to the right of the name. Below that stamped as well is MB-100 CDF. My question is what does this tell me ? Is it safe to assume box was made in 1972 ? And the other marks denote the model # followed by the # of this box being # 5831 on the assembly line?.. any help would be great.20220713_134059.jpg
 
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Hey guys, I'm new here,so I'll try not to be long winded. I own an MBC box top and bottom. Have had for abt 2 yrs now. I just found some identifying marks on the top box. It has the company name followed by a stamped 72 to the right of the name. Below that stamped as well is MB-100 CDF. My question is what does this tell me ? Is it safe to assume box was made in 1972 ? And the other marks denote the model # followed by the # of this box being # 5831 on the assembly line?.. any help would be great.20220713_134059.jpg
welcome, and send more pics !
 
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Danny A

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Thanks for the welcome!. I find this site both intriguing as well as an information treasure trove. Here is a pic of my box as it was 3 weeks ago, currently I am in the middle of putting a vinyl wrap on it. I will of course post pics as soon as its completed.
 

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Danny A

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Would love to find the center box to add to mine. I have searched and surfed but have yet to stumble across one yet. Thanks for the reply,
Thought I would share what I found this morning, maybe it will help someone who is also searching for info!
 

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Danny A

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After flipping thru this little catalog I uploaded yesterday I realized that while my assumption was correct abt my bottom box being the heavy duty version, my top box has a total of 10 slide out drawers, and the catalog only shows a maximum of 9 drawers, no mention of a tenth drawer anywhere. While fishing thru some old online auctions that had sold an MBC box I ran across the exact same setup as mine, the only difference was the box that was sold at this auction, had different badging than mine.my box Has 1 badge per box, they are from what I can tell the standard badging for MBC for that time period. Now the badging on the other box had the MBC logo it incorporated the word el Dorado as part of the badging..the box was no different than mine in any manner that I could see from the pics that were taken at auction, same bottom,with same amount of Drawers, same anodized pull handles, and it to had 10 drawers on the top box. I'm hoping maybe someone can Shed a little light on the Eldorado version of this box. Both of my boxes were manufactured in 1972, im assuming the Eldorado was produced after that, almost impossible to find any info on these online.
 

SRD83

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I have a spare middle box for this set if you are still on here Danny
 

SRD83

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Would love to find the center box to add to mine. I have searched and surfed but have yet to stumble across one yet. Thanks for the reply,
I have a spare middle box for this set if you are still on here Danny A
 

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