Vintage Colt Print Ads Page Two

1920's Colt ads featuring women and safety issues

'Safety of the Highways'

Lady with a Colt up her dress?

1913 Colt ad stressing 'home' protection and guardians

Home Guardians...Old and New.  'Put a Colt in your home.'

1914 and 1926 Colt ads promoting automatic pistol and revolver protection

'Proof, not talk'  'Fires the first shot'

1930s Colt ad promoting 'U.S. Mail' pilots carrying a revolver

'All Colonial Airways mail planes carry Colts as standard equipment'

1931 Fighting a bear with a 'steady hand' using a Colt

1920s Colt ad promoting 'Boar War' use of the Colt machine gun

'In a Tight Place but they'll win because they have Colts'

1920's Colt ad promoting their 'New Officer's Target Model'

This is our New Army Revolver fitted with special target sights, etc.'

1919 Colt ad with historical theme

Colt Revolvers Past and Present.  Have been

in the Past, Are in the Present, and will be in the Future'

1925 Colt ad 'Men who know what a Colt will do'

'Rx for tough customers'  Shooting an alilgator.

1942 Colt poster depicting servicemen using Colt revolvers and pistols

WW-2 Colt Firearms patriotic ads depicting servicemen with Colt guns

1920s Colt ad promoting the 'small' size Pocket Positive revolver

'Can be operated Only by the hand that holds it'

1920s Colt ad promoting the safety

features of the Police Positive revolver

'The pocket revolver with a Grip'

1929 ad about an expedition member killing a Polar bear

with a .38 caliber Official Police revolver.  Tall tale?  Marketing!

1930-40s Colt's Official Police and Officer Model ad

'Colt made it right'

1933 Shooting Master ad showing officer winning trophies

Post-WW-2 Colt ads suggesting a Colt as

a gift for men and women for target shooting.

'Isn't it time you gave yourself a Christmas Gift?'

Colt...The arm of Law and Order

'On a trip like this I always bring my Colt .22 Automatic'

1940s Colt ads promoting Camp Perry target shooting success and revolver use

1940s Colt post-War, Officers Model Target ads,

and introduction of the Detective Special

Colt's introduction of the .45 /.22 conversion kit and two heavy frame revolvers

'Not just a firearm...but a Colt'

1963 Colt rifle ad

'Varmits take notice...Colt'

The Colt factory c. 1910

The Colt Museum c. 1930s postcard