Old advertisements are fun!

I didn’t just buy guns at the S&W Collectors Association convention. I also bought some old paper, which I’ve slowly been scanning in.

I thought I’d upload this one, since it touches on two of this blog’s fairly recent obsessions. This dates from 1944: I am not a lawyer, but based on my understanding of copyright law, it is in the public domain unless S&W renewed the copyright in 1972. I am doubtful that they did, but if I receive evidence to the contrary I will remove this.

S&W Handgun History.

I have some more in this series if this proves popular, and if I don’t get a DMCA challenge.

(And I apologize for the bleed-through; these were done on fairly thin newsprint. I did try putting some black construction paper behind the pages to see if that would cut the bleed, but it didn’t help as much as I thought it would.)

One Response to “Old advertisements are fun!”

  1. Greg T. says:

    Good post. It is a reminder that some (much?) of today’s thinking may become a testimony to the idiosyncratic nature of popular thinking of any time. It would be interesting to see more of the same.