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I was at our local gun show on Sunday and bought a stack of "Army Ordnance" magazines that had some early Thompson ads. I made some higher quality scans and thought they would be appreciated here. These were back cover ads in a location normally owned by Dupont but Auto Ordnance appeared at least 3 times. From the May-June, 1922 issue.... From the September-October, 1922 issue.... From the May-June, 1923 issue....

Ordnance, Excellent scans of those ads, escepcially the Sept. - Oct. 2022 issue describing "The Thompson gun is a Humane weapon", sounds very WOKE! ? Coincidentally, I have a copy of the May-June 1923 edition of the Army Ordnance magazine in my collection. In my collection, I also have a copy of the Nov -Dec1920 issue of the Army Ordnance magazine with a Thompson advert on the back cover in my collection, with that classic photo of George E Goll posing in period Amercian army uniform. Tracie Hill commented, that he thought, as the ad has the early 501 Fifth Avenue, New York, address and the date of the publication, it is possibly one of the first adverts published by Auto-Ordnance Corporation for the Thompson.

Those folks that like to watch the steel plate competition might want to bring a lawn chair with them to the shoot. There is no seating. I will bring a couple extra chairs and if some others could that would be great ! Thanks, can't wait to see everybody!

Very interesting to see the ad with the mentioning of BSA and Hotchkiss connections. BSA of course made TSMG variations and Hotchkiss was the ski footed bipods used on Auto Rifles and Model of 1923 TSMG (one of two types of bipods). Tracie

It does not happen often, but I just finished working on a M1928A1 Savage trigger frame, that has without question, been un-touched since the day it was made. The mechanism pocket had 3/16" of hardened dirt/crud that had to be scraped off the parts. The springs were cemented in their holes. Even on the outside the pivot plated was buried in crud. The thing of interest is the serial number and that the frame has the checkered safety and rocker pivot. I don't know when the switch was made, but frame # S-116791 has checkered levers. The reason the frame looks good now it that I glass beaded and blued it - there was very little finish left. Also don't be alarmed at the cutout on the wood grip. That is just a stray grip that I fitted to the frame to make it easier to hold while assembling it. Bob

Awesome! Thank you guys for the info. I will take some more pictures and post them on this thread when I can. As far as I know this gun was purchased by the Crystal City State Bank in the 20s and then was transferred to our PD in 1974. This is the only form I have found at the moment which is the transfer to our pd from the bank.