I know this is a really old thread but just wanted to add mine to it. I got it just a week ago. It's an 8,000 serial from 1980 stamped "Paten Pending". I believe these lights were produced from 1979 to 1981 or 1982 and it looks lie there were around 18,000 made total. They were discontinued simply because they were slow sellers. In the early days Maglite did not have the manufacturing capacity they do now so from the folks I know there they would rather have produced lights that actually sold vs. lights like this. 7Cs continued until 1989 and sold marginally better but not well either. About 40,000 7Cs were produced from 1981 until 1989 so they are a lot less rare.
Also wanted to add that Maglite never made a light larger than a 7 cell in either C or D. Kel-Lite did though in their C cell baton lights. Maglite did very few special orders and I've covered a lot of them in the Rare Maglites thread and on my blog: http://maglitehistory.blogspot.com/ for those that are interested.
Also wanted to add that Maglite never made a light larger than a 7 cell in either C or D. Kel-Lite did though in their C cell baton lights. Maglite did very few special orders and I've covered a lot of them in the Rare Maglites thread and on my blog: http://maglitehistory.blogspot.com/ for those that are interested.
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