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15/12/2017 16:29:27
BSA/Lincoln Jeffries advertisements etc
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15/12/2017 16:29:58
Early BSA ads
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15/12/2017 16:30:41
Inter-War advert
With thanks to David.
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15/12/2017 16:31:24
American pre-WW1 ad
With thanks to David.
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15/12/2017 16:32:04
A Christmas Present of Distinction
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15/12/2017 16:32:42
A Paying Side Line
This ad in The Sporting Goods Review January 15th, 1907.
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15/12/2017 16:33:36
The BSA foresight protector
With thanks to Lakey
Here is a small advert taken from a bigger BSA publication advertising The B.S.A foresight protector
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15/12/2017 16:34:28
Another pre WW1 American Advert
With thanks to Lakey.
Lakey
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15/12/2017 16:35:06
A couple of BSA Christmas ads
With thanks to Tim J for supplying these ads.
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15/12/2017 16:35:43
Ads from Complete air-gunner by R Townsend
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15/12/2017 16:36:44
Breakdown Pattern Advert 1932
With thanks to Lakey.
Here is an advertisment for the 'New' BSA Breakdown pattern Air rifle, dated 1932.
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15/12/2017 16:37:30
BSA (USA market) advert from 1921
With thanks to Eddie.
Interesting as shows the BSA later style pellet box and claims rifle can be used "without attracting policeman on the beat"!!!
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15/12/2017 16:38:17
William H Hazard advertisement
This was also found on the Web:
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15/12/2017 16:38:58
BSAs sold in Myron Kasok collection auction 2003
The following vintage BSAs were sold from the collection of Myron Kasok on December 14th, 2003, near Chicago, by the Rock Island Auction Co.
You need to take some of the 'facts' in the blurb with a large pinch of salt (such as that there were only 1,000 Improved Model "D"s made, or that
"L" stands for "Lightning"!) but there's some interesting stuff in there. Among the genuine BSAs is a strange (Japanese?) BSA copy called a Remintoi.
There's also a strange 1930s BSA "T" prefix Standard in .25 cal. One of the "Lightning" Light Patterns has a transitional stock.
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15/12/2017 16:39:43
Early BSA ad (1905-6?)
With thanks to Martin for supplying this ad.
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15/12/2017 16:40:32
BSA 1930s shop window sticker
This scan of a 1930s window sticker was kindly provided by Martin,
who reports that he acquired the original in 1985 after an old
ironmongers in Chipping Norton was demolished. His friend rescued
the pane of glass and swapped it for a pint! Martin says John Knibbs
dated it as being from 1935-38.
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15/12/2017 16:41:24
Jones of Lichfield ad 1907
This advertisement appeared in the Lichfield Mercury in October 1907.
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15/12/2017 16:42:06
American BSA ad (1921)
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15/12/2017 16:43:05
BSA Ads from the late 1930's
With thanks to Eddie.
Some great ads from 1937-39....
Real schoolboy stuff from before P.C.
Regards, Ed
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15/12/2017 16:43:52
BSA point of sale card
This wonderful treasure was unearthed by Trevor Morris in New Zealand. John Atkins has speculated about its date in Air Gunner; because the rifle pictured is the product of artistic licence, although clearly a post-WW1 model it's very difficult to pinpoint.
The clothes of the lads shooting prone don't help much either, although since all those who have their jackets off are showing waistcoats, they may all be from a (posh) public school - and are perhaps shooting against the school's kitchen garden wall.
So the consensus seems to be for now simply that it's "between the Wars" - the 1920s or 1930s - until something or someone appears that can date it more accurately.
The new owner believes it was a point of sale card rather than one designed to hang (although it has clearly been hung at some point as it is now) because it's quite large.
With gratitude to Trevor for supplying the scans and to John for facilitating. There follows also a magnified section and a pic of the card now hanging in Trevor's office.
A cleaned up version of this advertisement, with thanks to Simon:
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15/12/2017 16:44:27
Lincoln Jeffries advertisements in The Sports Argus
Here are examples of a series of adverts run by George Lincoln Jeffries in the Sports Argus during 1914 and 1915.
The Argus was a Saturday sports paper published in Birmingham from 1897 to 2006, which appeared soon after the afternoon football matches had finished. Wikipedia says of it: "For many years the Argus was the largest-selling sports newspaper in Britain and had between 32 and 40 pages."
21.3.1914
28.3.1914
25.4.1914
29.8.1914
05.9.1914
19.9.1914
26.9.1914
17.10.1914
20.2.1915
27.2.1915
24.4.1915
12.6.1915
14.8.1915
11.9.1915
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04/10/2024 22:55:09
BSA 'Ratting' advertisement
With thanks to Andy.
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05/10/2024 23:01:59
BSA 'solid enjoyment' advertisement (Henry Smail, New York)
With thanks to Andy.
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27/02/2025 18:38:30
BSA flyer 1920s/early '30s
With thanks to Paul.
