Vintage Gun Photos

[peejman]

9 hours ago, Quavodus said:

Is that a Vickers?

Looks like a Browning 1917 to me. 

[Garufa]

9 hours ago, Quavodus said:

Is that a Vickers?

US M1917.

[Ronald_55]

[Jeb48]

Ready for a bike ride in Chicago.

[RED333]

8 hours ago, Jeb48 said:

Ready for a bike ride in Chicago.

The wheels look cool!

[Jeb48]

[Jeb48]

I assume a movie shot. Anyone recognize the movie and actress? Bonus for IDing the rifle and revolver.

[i1afli]

2 hours ago, Jeb48 said:

I assume a movie shot. Anyone recognize the movie and actress? Bonus for IDing the rifle and revolver.

Sharon Stone, The Quick and the Dead?

Not sure about the others. 

[i1afli]

On 4/23/2022 at 6:53 PM, Jeb48 said:

On 4/23/2022 at 6:53 PM, Jeb48 said:

Looks like maybe Cuba, any guesses?

The car in the back has “CELIA” written on it… wonder if this may be a parade featuring Celia Cruz, a popular Cuban singer in the 1950s before she came to America. Possibly her driving the car?  Wiki says “…revealed from partially declassified US State Department papers that Cruz had been linked to Cuba's pre-Revolution communist party, the Popular Socialist Party (PSP), as early as the 1940s.^[14] The article, promoted as an "exclusive", was written by Miami Herald journalist Carol Rosenberg from Freedom of Information Act requests. It made several revelations. Among them, that the US Embassy in Havana denied Cruz a US visa in 1952 and 1955 because of suspected communist affiliations. The article also states that Cruz had joined the youth wing of the PSP at age 20 and had used a concert to arrange a secret meeting with communists in South America on behalf of its then general secretary, Blas Roca Calderío, who was also founded the party in 1925. Cruz had also signed a public letter in support of one of the Party's front groups, the Pro-Peace Congress. The article states that Cruz's surviving husband, Pedro Knight, was asked about this, and is quoted he knew nothing about it. "She never told me about that. She never talked about politics," the article quotes Knight.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz

Edited April 28, 2022 by i1afli

[Whisper]

9 hours ago, i1afli said:

The car in the back has “CELIA” written on it… wonder if this may be a parade featuring Celia Cruz, a popular Cuban singer in the 1950s before she came to America. Possibly her driving the car?  

Google Images identifies this photo as one of many taken by Burt Glinn in Havana in 1959.  Glinn was famous for his photos of the Cuban Revolution.  As for Celia Cruz...no idea.

[Grayfox54]

13 hours ago, Jeb48 said:

I assume a movie shot. Anyone recognize the movie and actress? Bonus for IDing the rifle and revolver.

The rifle is a Winchester 1892.

The revolver is a large frame S&W break-top. Either a New Model #3 or a Schofield. I can't make out the latch, so I'm not sure which. 

Here's my Navy Arms Schofield for comparison.

 

[Ronald_55]

14 hours ago, Jeb48 said:

I assume a movie shot. Anyone recognize the movie and actress? Bonus for IDing the rifle and revolver.

I cheated a bit with Google Lens, but this is from West World.

 

Actress Ingrid Bolso Berdal as ARMISTICE (I think)

[Jeb48]

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1911 Mais Motor Truck with Canon

[Jeb48]

The Rocky Mountain Rangers

[Jeb48]

BAR, John M. Browning's Automatic Rifle

[Jeb48]

Michigan State Police with a nice Lincoln police car. Any idea what the second weapon leaning against the running board is, first just looks like a pipe. 

[bigun]

On 5/3/2022 at 8:45 PM, Jeb48 said:

BAR, John M. Browning's Automatic Rifle

My dad’s favorite ww2 joke. Did you hear about the 2 Germans who walked into a BAR. 

[Ronald_55]

1 hour ago, Jeb48 said:

Michigan State Police with a nice Lincoln police car. Any idea what the second weapon leaning against the running board is, first just looks like a pipe. 

Flare gun maybe?

[Grayfox54]

I'm thinking that 2nd thing is a cartridge for that flare/gas gun next to it. 

[MP5_Rizzo]

10 hours ago, Grayfox54 said:

I'm thinking that 2nd thing is a cartridge for that flare/gas gun next to it. 

Webley tear gas gun, circa 1920's ish.

[Jeb48]

[Snaveba]

18 minutes ago, Jeb48 said:

Apparently the secret agent Luger was not for sale in NYC. Even back then, NYC was anti-gun.