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Would you happen to know the name of the person that invented smokeless powder- whistlecleaner ebay
Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces less smoke and less fouling when fired compared to black powder. Invented in 1884 by Paul Vieille, the most common formulations are based on nitrocellulose, but the term was also used to describe various picrate mixtures with nitrate, chlorate, or dichromate oxidizers during the late 19th century, before the advantages of nitrocellulose became evident.
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I purchased a PDF catalog from you and lost the link page.
How can I get back to it? Tate
Rob, I found the link on my receipt (email). Thanks, Tate
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Thanks! That’s great service. Rodney
Thanks to you Rodney, Abby
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Hi, I have a shotgun Newport side-by-side with the letter(s) by the release and under the stock release number is 31021 Paul Marvucic
That’s great Paul, do you know what manufacturer made the gun? Abby
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I have some useful information about the publication “Bayard Pieper 1913 Circa (Belgian) Catalog”
It would seem that the publication was published around 1921 rather than 1913.
This can be deduced by the mention of a new creation, the bolt action rifle ‘1921 model’ on page 30.
Furthermore, the model of target shooting shown on page 31 clearly shows the date ‘January 27th, 1921’. It is thus impossible that the publication predates 1921. Regards, Jonathan Malo
Thanks Jonathon, I’ve revised all our listings to c1921. We appreciate your help. We’ve only sold a few in the last 20 years so we’ve not had many eyes on the booklet to make sure we were correct. Cheers, Rob
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Harrington & Richardson Schematic Drawings – Hi, does include the H&R Self-Loading Pistol please? Thank you in advance beej128 ebAY
You have to scroll down past all the ebay ads, to get to the index of contents, also look at the images with the advert:
Forty-Niner, Model 949 Nine Shot
H & R Handguns
H & R Rifles
Model 926 .22 Nine Shot Revolver
Pioneer Model 750 Rifle
Plainsman Model 865 Rifle
Pump Action Model 440
Sidekick Models 929, 930 Nine Shot
Sportsman Model 999 Nine Shot
Target Pistols Military 107 series
Topper Models 158, 198, 148A 188A
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Do you ship to Australia. I have bought from you before in the past. I would like some old reloading manuals. Thank you, Kindest Regards, Tony
Hi Tony, We don’t ship down-under ourselves but eBay ships those publications that countries allow to be imported through eBay (I know, it makes so sense). Australia and many other countries now insist we collect their import duty and taxes, something we just can’t do because they are all different and the bookkeeping would be a nightmare, so, that is why we rely on eBay for this service. Finally, you can buy a pdf from our website and print it yourself or have it printed locally. Sorry, Abby
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Browning 1900-02 Automatic Repeating Pistol Catalog and Manual – Received the book today, missing pages, pages printed and inserted upside down, no way to take this apart even and put in correct order. After page 7 the next illustration is upside down as printed on the paper. Definitely not happy with this. lduerson: ebay
I’m to blame, I printed the manual with every other page upside down, my mistake. I printed you a new copy (and checked it) that will go out in the mail tomorrow. I am sorry. Cheers, Rob for cornellpubs
Thank you, I appreciate it. lduerson: ebay
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Looking for brian c Knapp capping and breach loading book volumes 1 and 2 – Mark Jackson
Hi Mark, Try: Booksalefinder, Vialibri or Addall used books. Best, Abby
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I have an Astra. 357 police revolver that need internal and external repair but gunn ships here are inexperienced with repair for this classic. Can you assist? Davis
I’m sorry, we are publishers and do no repairs or sales of guns. Best, Abby
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Just writing to see if you might have an ad that would show some history of the Geco mauser sporter that was made in Germany? Thanks Mike. mikecconner17 ebay
Hi Mike, These all carry the Geco Mausers:
GECO 1926 circa Waffen und Munition Export List #33 (English)
GECO 1932 circa No. 47 Waffen – Munition – Jagdartikel, ((German)
GECO Munitions 1937 Catalog No. 65 – 50th Anniversary Issue, (German)
GECO 1938 Schiess-Sport (Gun and Accessory) Catalog, (German)
Rob for cornellpubs
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TM 9-270 1943 US Rifle 1903A4 (Sniper) Telescope Operation
Do you ship to Canada by any chance? Looking at both your 1903A4 manuals
rollin_dodge_charger ebay
We have listed all our publications as available for Ebay international shipping, including Canada. However, some countries or ebay itself decide if any one publication meets their silly algorithms standards, so some are not available. Try it and see. Sorry for their confusion. Cheers, Rob for cornellpubs
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Interested in your speed master catolog. Ollie Hensley
Hi Ollie, That’s great, thanks for letting us know. Cheers, Rob
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I have a model c Olympic. paton date April 25 1923 I would like any information on the gun. Do you have an owners Manuel for purchase and the price if one is available. Emma Campbell
Hello Emma, Is your weapon a shotgun, rifle or handgun? What caliber or bore? Can you describe the gun? Patent date doesn’t really help and the commonly used name Olympic could be a trade name and not the manufacturer Olympic. Cheers, Rob
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Hopkins & Allen 1914 Arms Parts Catalog – Hi I ordered the Hopkins and Allen 1914 parts catalog, and was told I would probably receive it by Jun 5th, and as far as I can see it has not shipped, what is the hold up? kennys-23: ebay
Hi Kenneth, Well, it looks to me as if we either didn’t print it or we shipped it and failed to record the tracking, probably the former since you didn’t get it. So, my apologies. I asked Abby to refund your purchase price and I’ll print you a copy right now and send it no charge. Cheers, Rob
I want to thank you Rob for refunding my money and still sending me the book,,, your truly a stand up guy .. thank you very much. I appreciate it.
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Hello, I’m looking for a 1980s George Lawrence leather company catalog that includes a holster size fit chart..might you have one..thanks
No Brad, we don’t. However, most holster catalogs don’t list individual handguns, the list would be enormous. They ask if the weapon is an auto or revolver and then small, medium or large. Abby,
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Hi, someone just told me about your company and I’m so excited. I own and run baseballglovecollector and have about 1,300 manufacturer catalogs in the Library, which I share with everyone. I perused your list of manufacturers and noticed there are about a dozen firearms companies who also made baseball gloves. I would love to get hold of PDF’s or reprints of as many of these catalogs as possible! If I supplied a list of manufacturers, would you be able to tell me which years you could provide and how much that would cost? I’m mostly interested in PDF’s and as many as possible. Happy to chat if you want to call. Thank you. Jim Daniel
Hello Jim, If you do a search for the work “baseball” you should be able to see the catalogs we sell that have that baseball listed in the contents. However, Abby and I have worked for over 20 years, since we retired, to assemble a good representation of vintage firearms publications. We pay the cost of operating the website and buying new product by selling reprints and pdfs. The website is also our modest retirement income. We would be terribly disappointed if someone were to buy our pdfs and then offer them for free to anyone who wants to download the files. We make that feeling known to our customers with a statement and tracker device attached to the start of every pdf we sell and, so far, people have been pretty good about respecting our hard work. Cheers, Rob
Hi Rob, thank you for the note. I totally appreciate what you two are doing and where you are coming from. With my excitement of trying to add new reference material to my site for the hobby, I didn’t think ahead that it could affect future sales. I certainly don’t want to do that. That is not my intention. I have been corresponding with an archivist at Abercrombie & Fitch and he gave me my first A&F catalog PDF (as the hobby hasn’t turned one up in the 30 years I have been collecting). I was so excited when he turned me onto you and your reprints. Anyway, I respect your position and have been told many times I’m an idiot for giving it all out for free. I don’t necessarily disagree. I was always just thinking about advancing the reference material in our hobby. Thanks Rob. Appreciate your time. JD
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Simson 1935 Waffenfabriken Co. Katalog, Suhl Hi, does it have pictures of Luger pistols? Thanks e-collector-bay ebay
No, I’m sorry, it does not. Rob for cornellpubs
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Ideal 1927 Hand Book of Useful Information for Shooters No.28 I have an old rifle that belonged to my great uncle. It’s a 1905 Winchester chambered in .32 Winchester Self-Loader. Winchester also made a 351 WSL and 401 WSL but the .32 WSL was the first to be discontinued. I’m trying to find out what year Ideal book still listed the .32 WSL information? I have some original Ideal manuals but my oldest is a #37 and by that time the cartridge was already no longer listed. Since the .32 WSL came out in 1905 and was discontinued probably within the first 25 years of production I’m thinking an Ideal manual from the 1920’s may contain the information? taa-3087 ebay
We reprint all the Ideal catalogs. No. 26 was 1916 and No. 27 was 1926 so a big gap. The 1907 has the .32WSL bullets and charges, and I assume most of them before 1916 as well. Cheers, Rob for cornellpubs
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Do have anything to help me LD. some bare pistol receivers ? I believe them to be German/Austria or Dutch and between 1900-1940’s. Thanks: Gary Nelson
Gary, I suppose we do, we print a lot of German publications but I can’t recommend only one with all the weapons you are looking for, certainly not just receivers. We have some books that illustrate lots of German/Austrian pistols but that is the best we can offer, For the most part they do not have parts illustrations. Cheers, Rob
Thanks for the reply. I will do some looking thro your catalog. Gary
Gary, you might look at some of the GECO catalogs and the WUM catalogs. By the way, if you enter the word GERMAN in the search bar you get a lot of German publications. I think the WUM 1932 would be the best for you. It has 85 pages of handguns, most with 8 or 10 to the page, so a good selection. There are guns that are not German as well, but it looks as if most are German. There are also some pages of parts diagrams which, of course, show the receiver. Cheers, Rob
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I’ve read the various rants you’ve posted over the years and just wanted to say that I’ve been extremely pleased with all of my purchases from your store. It’s too bad you usually only get complaints – I guess there’s more motivation to vent about something that’s perceived as bad rather than praise something good. Just so you know that you really do good work and that it is appreciated. Thanks! Charles Gadda
Thanks for the support Charles, we appreciate knowing people still look on us favorably! Cheers, Rob
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I always enjoy your newsletters. But did I spot 3-5 AI-created images in the most recent one? You do you, I’m just not a fan of this new artwork. If I’m mistaken, I apologize. Dan (in the real world)
Dan, A lady never tells! Abby
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Hi Chris, I put your question about Lyle Guns in our monthly newsletter and got a response. John Simpson sent me several copies of Lyle Gun reference publications I will forward to you using wetransfer, please look for the email. Also, below he mentions a company that sells reprints of military publications. That website is closing June 11 after 30 years so you would have to move quickly to buy from them. Hope this helps, Cheers, Rob
Rob, Regarding the Lyle Gun, the manual I sent that was written by Lyle, Report of Life-Saving Ordnance and Appurtenances. Washington (1878); had a number of illustrated Plates that didn’t get scanned in. Your customer can purchase a reproduction that’s complete from Mil-Inf before the end of June. John
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Cheers,
Rob and Abby
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perhaps I should just let you go to figure it out for yourself. But no, we’ve been doing this for over 20 years and have dealt with impatient an impolite folks like you on and off the whole time. So, if you had been patient and waited a minute longer for the large file to arrive at the website for you to download you would already have it. Failing that, if you entered a correct email address when you bought it, you would have another download link in your inbox. Have a look, then if you can’t find the email, send me a polite note and I’ll set you up with yet another copy. Cheers, Rob
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Hello, I’m looking for a 1980s George Lawrence leather company catalog that includes a holster size fit chart..might you have one..thanks
that have that baseball listed in the contents. However, Abby and I have worked for over 20 years, since we retired, to assemble a good representation of vintage firearms publications. We pay the cost of operating the website and buying new product by selling reprints and pdfs. The website is also our modest retirement income. We would be terribly disappointed if someone were to buy our pdfs and then offer them for free to anyone who wants to download the files. We make that feeling known to our customers with a statement and tracker device attached to the start of every pdf we sell and, so far, people have been pretty good about respecting our hard work. Cheers, Rob
that belonged to my great uncle. It’s a 1905 Winchester chambered in .32 Winchester Self-Loader. Winchester also made a 351 WSL and 401 WSL but the .32 WSL was the first to be discontinued. I’m trying to find out what year Ideal book still listed the .32 WSL information? I have some original Ideal manuals but my oldest is a #37 and by that time the cartridge was already no longer listed. Since the .32 WSL came out in 1905 and was discontinued probably within the first 25 years of production I’m thinking an Ideal manual from the 1920’s may contain the information? taa-3087 ebay
I’ve read the various rants you’ve posted over the years and just wanted to say that I’ve been extremely pleased with all of my purchases from your store. It’s too bad you usually only get complaints – I guess there’s more motivation to vent about something that’s perceived as bad rather than praise something good. Just so you know that you really do good work and that it is appreciated. Thanks! Charles Gadda