Need help with Snap On chest date codes

[Kelly Burns]

I've been buying some old Snap On chests, and for the life of me I can't anywhere that would tell me the dates on these chests! Please help!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Collecting snap on is a great place to check.

 

[Shelbylex]

Pictures?

 

[mervyn]

I’ll have to look, but I don’t think they have a date stamped on em. I found the model number on mine and looked it up here -

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Snap On Blue-Point A NATIONAL PERSONAL TOOL SERVICE CATALOGS WHO WE ARE-Let's Introduce My-self I inherited my grandfather’s Snap on and Blue Point tools. He worked at the Chevy plant in Kansas City in the 1940s and 50s. My original tools are from that period and they were basically something...

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[snapmom]

Date codes on boxes started in about 53 or so. mostly on the back, but sometimes on the right side or front post.

 

[Kelly Burns]

Here are pictures of what is stamped into the back of both the chests I’ve got.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

65 and 76

 

[Kelly Burns]

@Oldtuleguy Where I’m the world did you do go to figure it out?! I joined the collecting Snap On site and couldn’t find anything out.

I also forgot to say, thank you.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

The last two numbers after USA

 

[Kelly Burns]

@Oldtuleguy thank you.

 

[Inno]

Can anyone decode this date code? It's not on any list that I can find.

Thanks in advance.

 

[snapmom]

40