Recently two Star Uinversals were listed on Ebay, one in 38 Special and one in 45 ACP. The pair sold for of $1,504.99. Aside from a little storage rust they were in excellent condition, and seem to include all of the original accessories that would have shipped with the reloaders, including the original shipping cartons.
However, the most interesting item included with the loaders was the original invoice from Star dated July 7, 1993. Since it's pretty well accepted that Star closed their doors mid 1993, these have to be among the last reloaders assembled by Star.
Note: When I originally wrote the above, I was under the impression that Star stopped producing reloaders in 1993. Magma Engineering had told me that they purchased the Lubesizer business in 1993 so I assumed that the reloader business was sold to Bill Cunningham at the same time. I subsequently learned that Bill Cunningham bought the business in 1997, so Star was producing at least some reloaders until that time. Also, I have price lists for both 1996 and 1997, confirming they were still operating at that time.
As Lifetyme indicates below, Star was not selling many reloaders in the final years.
