Interesting old ad on another forum....

[Murphy]

 

[Murphy]

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Serious Collection, also found interesting as I have 44 FT #18356 from the ad.

 

[contender]

The top picture looks a bit like an old ad found in Shotgun News long ago.

The bottom pic,, Very nice!

 

[Murphy]

Exactly! or gun digest, couldnt remember which, maybe both. It was John D....moving a serious collection. He sold me Hank's from that ad.

 

[hittman]

Old ads are really cool …..

 

[hittman]

 

[T.A. WORKMAN]

https://www.rugersociety.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3971

 

[GRAMPS 51]

Was there any indication what year the add was printed a number of years ago i was discussing very low serial numbered guns i was trying to buy from a man in Arizona that he had paid 16 K for one i wasnt sure he wasnt pulling my leg WOW

Gramps

 

[rugerguy]

yes, John De., was indeed a very strange man, last time I ever dealt with him and was just before that Shotgun news ad pictured above, he gave us a hard time about a red cylinder on a 2 digit .357 flatop.......wow

 

[JAYDAWG]

Was there any indication what year the add was printed a number of years ago i was discussing very low serial numbered guns i was trying to buy from a man in Arizona that he had paid 16 K for one i wasnt sure he wasnt pulling my leg WOW

Gramps

The ad says that serial #10 357 BH won an award at the 1993 NRA convention, and the Hank Jr letter is from November 1993, so sometime after that.

Very cool to see. Thanks for posting and thanks Terry for the link to the ROCS thread!

 

[Fox Mike]

Saw that on the ROCS site just this morning. WOW, what a collection!

 

[Hankus]

Wow, if that ad is from 1986 those were some SERIOUS prices! Even if it was from ~1993, wow!

 

[DGW1949]

Ok, I know that I'm a dummy when it comes to collecting...but it seems to me that after hanging around here for some 20 years or so, that I would have known that Ruger made a nickle plated .357 Blackhawk...But no, until reading this thread, I did not...It does make me wonder though; Was #27140 really nickle, or was it actually chromed as were the Single Sixes?....Anyone know?

DGW