Vintage Du Pont Powder Advertisement. ?
 

Anyone know what year Du Pont used this calendar advertisement?
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l3...s/DuPontAd.jpg

Didn't DuPont own Remington at one time? The layout of the facility reminded me of the Remington trap/skeet family place in Connecticut along Long Island Sound

Lordship is the name of the place and I have a photo of it in the early thirties somewhere around here...

Dupont owned Remington from around 1934 to 1993

Remington Gun club in Lordship(Stratford) CT is about a mile from my house in fact we drove around the property last week as it is now open to the public for walking trails and fishing at the mouth of the Housatonic River. The main clubhouse,armory and the target storage building are still standing. All the trap and skeet houses are now gone. I spent many a day shooting at that wonderful facility.

Next time I go there I will take some picture for you guy's.

In the Remington photo..if the upper left part of the photo is supposed to be water it would sure look like one of the trap fields on Stratford Point.

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Originally Posted by Mike Stahle (Post 46209) Anyone know what year Du Pont used this calendar advertisement?

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Mike,
"The Sport Alluring" image was used as an advertising poster (metal bands top & bottom) by Dupont Powders around 1911, and was also used by the Dominion cartridge Co around the same time... Artist is Hy Watson, one of the best sporting illustrators of his time, his work still stands up today as top-shelf...

Best, CSL
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Yup...Mr Lien nailed it! I just checked "The Road to Yesterday" by the late great Dick Baldwin and it was 1911. Thanks Chris....that was buggin me...:)

Here's one story I love and laugh about.
http://tinyurl.com/6cww9ug
Now I could just get a hold of Clydes Parker. hint hint.

WOW $$$$
Cheaper to collect Parker's :eek:

http://www.icollector.com/SPECTACULA...OSTER_i5323998

Thanks all :)

Fun read. An old gentleman who lived near us when I was a kid used to take bets on shooting sparrows on the wing with a .22 He would let the competition shoot and miss and finally tell them to watch how it is done. Using the same rifle, he would pop a few sparrows on the wing. I used to mow his grass when I got a little older. One day he was talking about the sparrow ruse. He admitted he had a pocket full of .22 shot shells (lead dust for shooting annoying birds in a barn). So, the young rancher in the story may have had an unknown advantage with him or he was a damn good shot.
Cheers,
Jack