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1909 King Air Rifle
1925 Meccano magazine advert
1951

1871.HM Quackenbush advertises his pistol patent in "Scientific American". The grand-daddy of all pop-out airguns!

1891 Advert

1949 Radio & Hobbies advert(Levenson's,Pitt St.,Sydney).

Airgun pages from "America's Great Gun House Catalogue-1954










1950 Mail Order Catalogue

Martin Arms corp. 1955 The gun that never was?
Advert from,The Airgun Letter/Bob Spielvogel


1957 McCarthy's Gun Shop(Dunedin) catalogue #118

1957 Airgun page from Marlborough Sports Depot catalogue(their 1st one!)

1964 Gammins Sports Depot Ltd (Hamilton) catalogue



1966 Sportsways Ltd(Auckland) catalogue.

1975 SportswaysLtd(Auckland) catalogue

1927 Meccano magazine advert

1930 Meccano magazine advert

1927 Crack Shot game
1948

1936

1927






Man-eating water melon! 1890

1954




BOP,1951


1948

1947



1949


Alley Target Gun 1888
Designed and patented by Cassius Alley in 1887.


Eureka Target Pistol 1890
It is a spring powered "hoop shooter"!

Brown Air Pistol,1938

1971

1926 Meccano magazine advert

1927 Meccano Magazine

1955

1930's Johnson Smith catalogue

1937 Meccano magazine advert

1935

1964


1944

1933 Meccano magazine advert

1928 Meccano magazine advert

1889

1905

1885

1890

1928

1906




1926

1929

1926
1930

1926

1970



1954 advert

1950's Adverts.





1874





1953 Spatz Advert








1927





1988 Sunday Star.Mr Rasche,in NZ to make a Johnson's Wax commercial,pauses to pose with a Crosman 357. Trust him.....

1938








1928

1908 NZ Truth

1927 Truth








1897 Sears Catalogue


1902 Sears Roebuck Catalogue







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1953





