Ah, but it took a lifetime to train a decent (English) archer; or so they claimed.
In defense of all the antecedents of mostly my wife's family, most of this old material and such money as there is came from just one place in Charlestown, West Virginia. The household of the individual in question contained the accumulation of three or four generations, none of whom have living descendents today. Also, the individual had been a Civil War horse artillery officer who had married a Washington, I believe. I've been married to this family for over 30 years and I still don't have it all straight. Anyway, this is the same place that pre-WWI pea green Mills web pistol belt and the .45 auto magazine with a lanyard ring came from.
The magazine I mentioned had a full page advertisment for fireworks on page 1 also. Another magazine, Harper's magazine, August 1897, had an advertisement for Savage rifles (for SAVAGE GAME). The ad claimed it took all of the six cartridges illustrated, most of which I'd never heard of, but they were all .303 Savage variants. That was about it as far as gun advertisements.
In defense of all the antecedents of mostly my wife's family, most of this old material and such money as there is came from just one place in Charlestown, West Virginia. The household of the individual in question contained the accumulation of three or four generations, none of whom have living descendents today. Also, the individual had been a Civil War horse artillery officer who had married a Washington, I believe. I've been married to this family for over 30 years and I still don't have it all straight. Anyway, this is the same place that pre-WWI pea green Mills web pistol belt and the .45 auto magazine with a lanyard ring came from.
The magazine I mentioned had a full page advertisment for fireworks on page 1 also. Another magazine, Harper's magazine, August 1897, had an advertisement for Savage rifles (for SAVAGE GAME). The ad claimed it took all of the six cartridges illustrated, most of which I'd never heard of, but they were all .303 Savage variants. That was about it as far as gun advertisements.
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