Long C Craftsman Box

[Bamacruiser98]

I recently bought a long carpenter’s box and a short , fairly common box locally. I spend a little time and elbow grease restoring the long box. It was completely covered with surface rust to the point that I think the seller thought it was toast but I was a few methods to remove most of that. Cleaned up well considering and was even able to see some of that original blue paint I love. It also has two leather handles, one on the lid and one on the side which is strange to me. Unless it had wheels why would they only install the one side handle. Anyways I sat down last night to find the original ad for it bc I like to print them out and keep with the tool. I wasn’t able to find a single ad nor was I able to find another one that had sold on eBay, hell I couldn’t even find a single image of this box. I looked at years 30, 34,38,39,40,45 but nothing but I also didn’t see boxes so maybe they didn’t advertise boxes? I’m hoping one of your craftsman heads can help or show me where to look. I have the long C /BE midget ratchet set that’s prewar so I tried looking around those years but nothing. Thanks for any help.

 

[alinc100]

1934 Hardware catalog:

 

[alinc100]

Blue crackle finish mentioned in 1939 catalog :

 

[alinc100]

Extra end handle on the 32" mentioned in 1937

 

[Jayman17]

I can't believe the before and after pics of that box. That really cleaned up nice!

 

[Bamacruiser98]

I can't believe the before and after pics of that box. That really cleaned up nice!

Thanks, Luckily the type of rust on it hadn’t gotten deep yet except for on the bottom and front. CRL with a scrubber really worked well, took the wire brush bit to it lightly to get the deep stuff out.