A Marlin ad from 1894



From The Marlin Fire Arms Co.

Shooting & Fishing, September 6, 1894

The Marlin Fire Arms Co. announces its readiness to supply
a new repeating rifle which will be known as the Model 1894.
This rifle will be made with an octagon or round barrel, 24 inches, 14 shots,
the former weighing 6¾ pounds, and the latter 71⁄8 pounds. A carbine will also be supplied with a 15 or 20 inch barrel, 10 and 12 shots,
weighing 6 pounds. Rifles in this model can be furnished with barrels up to 32 inches in length at an extra price of $1 per inch, either round, octagon, or half-octagon, and the rifles will also be furnished with case
hardened receivers, and the carbines with blue receivers. The company announces its readiness to furnish this model at the present time in .38-40 and .44-40 calibers only, straight grip rifles. The .32-20 rifles with pistol-grip
stock will for the present be supplied in the 1889 model. The .32-20 in the model 1894 will be ready soon.

$1.00 an inch...The Good ol' days

Nice rifle, Chuck. The, .32-20, was the first centerfire rifle I ever shot. I fell in love with it immediately. :ThumbsUp:

I found that ad in the current American Rifleman magazine. It's a copy of the original Marlin ad back in 1894.

The gun pictured is just like the one I bought from my nurse a while back.

I wonder what it would cost to purchase the original magazine with the ad in it? If you could even find it.

I looked up "Good Old Days" in my encyclopedia and there was a picture of you Chuck... :D

(Kenny will like that one.... :ThumbsUp: ... :D ...)

Leep:

:yahoo: :WooHoo: I love it. Thanks, Leep. :ThumbsUp:

Yup!

A picture of me is a picture of pure GOODNESS back in time and a picture of Kenny will take you even further back in time

I'm gonna rent a jet and go backwards with Kenny around the world until Kenny is two years younger than you Chuck...That'll learn ya... :D ... :ROFL:


Leep:

Hey Leep! are you gonna let that, 'ol fart, get away with talkin' to yer bud like that. :o :o :o