NICE Original Advertising Billhead / Letterhead
Elmira Arms Company
Elmira, New York
1910
For offer, a very nice old Advertising engraved / lithograph letter head / bill head! Fresh from an old prominent estate. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, Original - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !!
Nice graphic print showing gun, football, boxing gloves, fishing pole. They also sell bicycles, tackle, ammunition, Edison photographs and records, athletic and outing goods, automobiles. In good to very good condition. Please see photos and scans for all details and condition. If you collect 19th century Americana advertisement ad history, United States of America printing, American manufacturing, industry, shooting, weapons, in the State, etc. this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. Genealogy research importance as well. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 3777
Nearby towns in Chemung County:
City
Elmira (county seat)
Towns
Ashland
Baldwin
Big Flats
Catlin
Chemung
Elmira
Erin
Horseheads
Veteran
Southport
Van Etten
Villages
Elmira Heights
Horseheads
Millport
Van Etten
Wellsburg
Census-designated places
Big Flats
Breesport
Erin
Horseheads North
Pine Valley
Southport
West Elmira
Hamlet
Lowman
A firearm is a portable gun, being a barreled weapon that launches one or more projectiles often driven by the action of an explosive force.[1][2][3] The first primitive firearms were invented in 13th century China when the one-person-portable fire lance was combined with projectiles.[4] The technology gradually spread through the rest of East Asia, South Asia, Middle East and then into Europe. In older firearms, the propellant was typically black powder, but modern firearms use smokeless powder or other propellants. Most modern firearms (with the notable exception of smoothbore shotguns) have rifled barrels to impart spin to the projectile for improved flight stability.
Modern firearms are usually described by their caliber (i.e. their bore diameter, this is given in millimeters or inches e.g. 7.5mm, .357) or in the case of shotguns their gauge (e.g. 12 ga.); the type of action employed (muzzle, breech, lever, bolt, pump, revolver, semi-automatic, automatic etc.) together with the usual means of deportment (hand-held or mechanical mounting). They may be further distinguished by reference to the type of barrel used (rifled) and the barrel length (19 inch), the design's primary intended use (e.g. hunting rifle), or the commonly accepted name for a particular variation (e.g. Gatling gun). The word firearms usually is used in a sense restricted to small arms (weapons that can be carried by a single person),[5] whereas the word artillery covers larger gunpowder-fired weapons.
Firearms are aimed visually at their targets by hand using either iron sights or optical sights. The accurate range of pistols is generally limited to 100 yards (91 m), while most rifles are accurate to 500 metres (550 yd) using iron sights, or longer ranges using optical sights (firearm rounds may be dangerous or lethal well beyond their accurate range; minimum distance for safety is much greater than specified range). Some purpose-built sniper rifles are accurate to ranges of more than 2,000 metres (2,200 yd).