Ah! Yes, very true. I hadn't taken their superior quality into consideration.
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Nobody has posted an ad for the 721/722 yet (I don't believe).
I fell madly in love with this lovely lady the minute I laid eyes on her.
......... I'd love to see some light shed on that topic. I thought he may have been another fictional persona from some advertising agency brainstorming session, but have no idea what the real story may be. Speaking of old gun advertising; Back when Sears & Roebuck was using the "J. C. Higgins" name I've heard that J.C. Higgins was a real person who was actually a corporate executive at Sears but have no idea if that's true. Could that be another form of an Urban Legend?It looks like Charles Daly was a bit of a shotgunner, can anyone shed some light on Mr. Daly and his exploits?
Charles Daly was born in New York City on October 12, 1839. In the late nineteenth century, around 1875, in New York City, Charles Daly and August Shoverling began a business importing firearms into the United States, primarily from the city of Suhl in what was then Prussia.[1] Manufacturers for Daly at that time included Heym, Shiller, H. A. Lindner, Sauer, J&W Tolley of England, Newman (of Belgium) and Lefever Arms.[2]
Charles Daly combination gun advertisement (1887)
In 1887 Shoverling and Daly were joined by a third partner named Joseph Gales, and the company began doing business as Shoverling, Daly and Gales, before settling simply on the name Charles Daly.[3] The original Charles Daly died suddenly in 1899, but the business continued with his son, Charles Howard Daly, taking his place until 1919, when the partnership was sold to Henry Modell.
The new owners continued the tradition of importing firearms and marketing them with the Charles Daly name until the late 1920s, when the company was sold to the Walzer family, which owned Sloan's Sporting Goods in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Walzers established a branch of Sloan's in New York City known as Charles Daly & Company. Manufacturers from all over the world produced Daly guns for the Walzers, including Beretta, Bernadelli and Miroku.
Read more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Daly_firearms
The brand name, J. C. Higgins, was based on a real person, John Higgins who was a Sears employee. He moved from his birth country of Ireland to the United States in his late teens and began working for Sears in 1898. He spent his entire working career with Sears and was Vice President for the company for a period of time. He was actually born with no middle name but the Sears Co. presented the idea of labeling their sporting good line with his name and saw it more presentable labeling the brand as J.C. Higgins. He worked with the company until his retirement as head bookkeeper in 1930. Higgins died in 1950. His expertise in sporting goods or sports is unknown.
Read more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Higgins
This one?One of my favorite ads for all the wrong reasons is the one depicting a magazine from an H&K pistol with the cartridges loaded backwards in it. I can't imagine a more embarrassing advertisement for a gun company.