How old is this?

[Mister Ridge]

Pretty simple question. I'd like a ballpark age on this bottle and packaging. Last time they made them is fine. Local gun shop owner says five years.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

Limited google searching has turned up dates for similar looking bottles and packaging anywhere from 1937 to 1961.

 

[Mister Ridge]

Limited google searching has turned up dates for similar looking bottles and packaging anywhere from 1937 to 1961.

Given that the copyright date is 1961, I'm going to say it's at least later then that.

 

[HD-Ghost]

I tell the wife just a dab behind each ear.

 

[batex]

I love the smell of that stuff! I have a bottle like that that came in a cleaning kit from the early 1980s.

 

[RTH1800]

It was sold like that up to the last time I bought it. Not old.

 

[MJ1]

At least eight years. I think they had to remove the nitro-benzine and ofcourse that was the smell we splash on after shaving...

 

[sandwarrior]

It seems to me that yellow box went away some time in the '90's. There was a lot of old stock out there, as that was when everybody started cleaning rifles like benchrest guns. All the 'new' products came out about then and they were 'better' because, as MJ1 said, the nitro benzene was removed. It's also about the time that ammonia really started to get used heavily to remove copper.

My guess, early '90's.