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My MoPac stepbox is all silver, including the rubber feet. The T&P step boxes that I saw “in service” were similarly all silver. However, I have also seen several T&P step boxes (in private collections) that have a black base and unpainted aluminum top. On both, I have scraped on the underside to try to get some evidence of underlying paint, with no success. One is unpainted on underneath and other has been spray painted black. It would be helpful to see photos, but I wonder whether black base and unpainted aluminum tread might have been standard on the T&P in the pre-Jenks era?
The photo shows a T&P box with the embossed lettering unpainted. While this looks nice, its seems unlikely that it would have been standard.
Bill Pollard
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