Thread: The Way It Was

When you look back at the quantity of rifles, Bowie knives and other gizmos manufactured and marketed during the colonial days, the conquest of the American west, followed by the romance of African safaris between the two wars and post ww2, except for the electronics and the quality of the printing of the colour paper there is not necessarily that much difference on how much shit you got told you had to buy and carry.

In France , from the 1900s till 1972, every year there was the huge catalogue of the Manufacture des armes et cycles ( guns and bicycles) of St etienne.
My family still had a couple of late editions when I was a kid.
If you pile up 4 or 5 current catalogues from hunting and fishing , that gives you an idea of the thickness of the catalogue from that manufacture

https://www.amazon.com/Catalogue-Man.../dp/2714443095