Going through a box of stuff ...

... that has been packed since we moved in 2014.

Several Lincoln pennies from the 1920s.

A five-round clip of fired ’03 Springfield cartridges.

A not-yet-framed Christmas water color from a Texas friend, probably from 2002 or earlier.

Several empty picture frames.

A 1961 Klein’s Sporting Goods catalogue, the same place Lee Harvey Oswald bought his Carcano 91/38 rifle. Oswald reportedly paid $19.99 for rifle and scope. Without scope, the rifle sold for $9.99 and Klein’s would ship the rifle through U.S. mail to a buyer’s home address.

Klein’s sold everything an outdoors man needed. Tents, sleeping bags, camp stoves, fishing equipment, boats and guns. Shotguns, rifles, revolvers, pistols, air guns … All shipped to your home address.

The Chicago-based company also sold military surplus rifles, from several wars before the 1960s. Argentine Remington Rolling Block rifles, 11mm, were $9.99. 1917 Springfield (also sometimes called a 1917 Enfield), .30-’06-caliber, $29.99. 1903 Springfield, $44.95. Martini rifle, .310-caliber, $12.99. Klein’s also sold the Mark III Enfield for $9.99.

Webley .38 or .45-caliber, $14.95. Astra 9mm pistol, $14.95. Enfield .38-caliber revolver, $12.88. M1917 Colt, .45-caliber, $24.95. At one time, Klein’s sold the .455 Webley revolver for $9.99.

Yes, those were the days.