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    1804 airgun advertisement

    Been reading the old newspapers again and came across this bit, in the back of the paper where the ads are, of course. It's in Kaiserlich privilegirter Reichs-Anzeiger, Monday, April 30, 1804, page 8 https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/i...canvas/p8/view

    Don't really have the time at the moment to translate it, getting these fraktur texts transcribed is just too time consuming but if somebody else transcribes it I will, but... in any case, it's an advert by August Stormer -büchsenmacher- Herzburg, Germany (Mentioned in Hoff, can't find anything else at the moment) and he's advertising both air rifles and pistols. He gives the effective range, 100 feet, and other performance info, and prices! Pretty clearly he is advertising a Girandoni type, which is what Hoff also mentions.

    This is the earliest advertisement for selling any sort of Windbüchsen that I can recall.
    Last edited by DT Fletcher; 22-03-2019 at 05:43 PM. Reason: new link

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