282 pages, about 8 1/2" x 11" glossy soft-cover in full color. Newly reprinted with permission. Printed on high quality 24# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated with photocopied images. (Some of the rarest and oldest guns are depicted with low quality images). Thousands of old gun and ammunition advertisements with date and origin- for example: American Arms, Forest & Stream 12-6-1877.

Contents - Index:

• Pages: 282

• Digest of Advertising for Firearms and Ammunition 1873 – 1920
• By Joseph Vorisek
• Firearms and Hunting Goods
• Abercrombie
• Accessories and Ammunition
• American Makers
• Auxiliary Rifle Company
• Baker Guns
• Ballard
• Chas. Green
• Chicago Arms
• Clark and Sneider
• Colt
• Daly
• Davis
• Durston
• Fancotte
• Folsom
• Greener
• H & R
• Hotchkiss
• Hunter Arms
• Ithaca
• Iver Johnson
• Kirkwood
• Koenig
• Lancaster
• Lang
• Lau
• Lefever
• Madison
• Manhattan
• Mannlicher
• Marlin
• Marsters
• Maynard
• Meriden
• Merwin
• Morse
• Nichols
• Parker
• Peck and Snyder
• Pittsburgh
• Pope
• Remington
• Sauer
• Scott
• Sharps
• Shelton’s Rifle
• Smith
• Smith & Wesson
• Sneider
• Squires
• Stevens
• Turner and Ross
• W C Scott
• Wesson
• Winchester
• Wm Read
• And: Dead Shot, American Powder, Atlantic, BGI, Belcher Loader
• Dimick, Dittmar, Hesse, Ideal, Laffin, Oriental Powder, Lyman,
• Peters, Schleber, St. Louis, Sampson, Stoddard, Sparks, UMC,
• Climax, USCC, Winchester, Boughtons Target Ball, Kays Balls,Victor Glass Balls, Exboge Tap, Carver, Bogardus, Paines Glass Balls, Card Traps