Old gun ad

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

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I think this is my favorite old gun ad.

 

 

[J-BAR #18287]

I like the old ads, too. This one came out a bit before I was born, but it's for one of my favorite revolvers:

 

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I would like to have a 38/44 Heavy Duty.

 

But I think even more I would like to have a three and a half inch Registered Magnum.

 

[J-BAR #18287]

3 hours ago, Alpo said:

 

But I think even more I would like to have a three and a half inch Registered Magnum.

Bring money.

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If you're going to get a three and a half inch Registered Magnum, you might as well get Georgie's "killing gun".

 

Now that would be money.

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[Pat Riot]

When I was a kid I loved all these old color ads. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I wonder why that girl was roping a jaguar?

 

As long as I've had that ad, I thought that the cat has spooked the horse and the girl got thrown, and fortunately she had a gun to protect herself from the cat.

 

And I just noticed the rope going from the cat's neck to the saddle.

[Jonathan Slim Chance]

This is one of my favorite signs

[Alpo]

Yes, Lester's was a well-known brand. Used not only in the Great American Desert, but in the northern states as well.

 

 

 

The Sun never set on Lester's.

 

[DeaconKC]

I have a Lester's sign up in the garage!

[Bailey Creek,5759]

Mom told me when she was a kid.

Revolvers pocket pistols used to come in bags of flower.

That was when the bags were made out of cotton.

[Alpo]

An old Skeeter Skelton story about buying guns.

 

He said when he had passed the word out that he was in the market for guns this guy came up to him and told him that he had "some kind of a 32 that he had won on a punch card".

 

Y'all remember them, right?

You would pay your quarter, and there was this metal rod and you would push out any of the little round dots that you wanted. Then you would unroll what you punched out and see what, if anything, you won.

 

That "some kind of a 32" was a Colt 1903 Model M.

 

Imagine winning that on a punch card.

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

[Alpo]

I like that Savage ad.

 

Warn him that you've got a gun, and if he doesn't leave, shoot through the door.

 

That would go over real good today wouldn't it?

 

And then shoot out the window, to call for the police. Hopefully you don't hit one of the neighbors when you shoot out the window.

 

You suppose this ad copy was written by Brandon?

[DeaconKC]

9 hours ago, Alpo said:

An old Skeeter Skelton story about buying guns.

 

He said when he had passed the word out that he was in the market for guns this guy came up to him and told him that he had "some kind of a 32 that he had won on a punch card".

 

Y'all remember them, right?

You would pay your quarter, and there was this metal rod and you would push out any of the little round dots that you wanted. Then you would unroll what you punched out and see what, if anything, you won.

 

That "some kind of a 32" was a Colt 1903 Model M.

 

Imagine winning that on a punch card.

My Uncle Carlos walked into a shop once with one of those boards. The gun had not been won and there were 8 spots left on it. He paid the $2 and walked out with the pistol. Still had it when I was a kid. Wonder whatever became of it.

[Pat Riot]

16 hours ago, Alpo said:

An old Skeeter Skelton story about buying guns.

 

He said when he had passed the word out that he was in the market for guns this guy came up to him and told him that he had "some kind of a 32 that he had won on a punch card".

 

Y'all remember them, right?

You would pay your quarter, and there was this metal rod and you would push out any of the little round dots that you wanted. Then you would unroll what you punched out and see what, if anything, you won.

 

That "some kind of a 32" was a Colt 1903 Model M.

 

Imagine winning that on a punch card.

These were illegal in Pennsylvania when I was a kid. My Dad used to buy them in WV or TN then bring them to PA and sell them to bars and taverns. There was no gun involved as a prize though. 

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

17 hours ago, PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L said:

Back when AMERICA was FREE 

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2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

These were illegal in Pennsylvania when I was a kid. My Dad used to buy them in WV or TN then bring them to PA and sell them to bars and taverns. There was no gun involved as a prize though. 

There's a movie. The Flim-Flam Man. George C Scott was a con man, and I believe one of the Bridges boys was his assistant.

 

Back during the depression. George would sell these cards to store keepers for $5. They had like 200 punches, at a quarter apiece, that was 50 bucks. The big prize was 25, which the storekeeper would have to pay out, but still he would make $20 on this thing. So he would buy the card, and Scott would leave, and a few minutes later his assistant would come in and "hey I'll take a chance on that", and put down his quarter and punch out the $25 prize. He knew where it was because it was in the same spot on all the cards. And this card that probably cost them a dime to have made up, and they ended up making $30 on it.

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

17 hours ago, Alpo said:

I like that Savage ad.

 

Warn him that you've got a gun, and if he doesn't leave, shoot through the door.

 

That would go over real good today wouldn't it?

 

And then shoot out the window, to call for the police. Hopefully you don't hit one of the neighbors when you shoot out the window.

 

You suppose this ad copy was written by Brandon?

 

If you READ the ad, it specifies chains on BEDROOM doors...which implies the intruder is already in the house, attempting to gain entry to the homeowner's "safe space".

NOT some stranger standing on the front porch (who, according to "semi-reliable sources", can be discouraged by blasting a shotgun through the door).

 

Also...considering that folks back then were unlikely to have a phone in the bedroom, opening a window and firing a round or two into the air (NOT shooting haphazardly through the pane) would probably get the neighbors' attention, resulting in calls to the local PD. 

 

 

 

 

[J-BAR #18287]

That Savage 1907 .32 ACP can be found on Gunbroker for $400-600.  The book by Masterson mentioned in ad is "The Tenderfoot's Turn" and is not easy to find, worth almost as much as the gun!

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

 

 

 

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