Cannon Auction Brochure (link)

The auction house has many ways of advertising its auctions; the linked brochure is one of them-they send out thousands to their mailing list. They try and include a broad range of items from each collection they are selling. The page shown is one of the 8 pages in the fold-out brochure. Folded out completely, it is one sheet printed on both sides, 17 x 22 inches. This seems to be a fairly common size and format for auction mail-out flyers. http://springfieldarsenal.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=157

 

I like their use of the words "Extraordinary" "Renowned" and "Expert." In this case, not hyperbole, I'm sure!

 

Yes, I had to buy a hat two sizes bigger after I read all that!

 

Looks nicely done. And I'm sure you've got a great rep in the cannon collecting world!

 

Over 100 "new" photos have been added to the detailed images sections of the various cannons, over about the last 2 weeks, about 50 just today.. These are not usually photos of the weapons on sale themselves, but historical photos, additional info, etc. If I do say so myself, there are many very interesting images among them, most of which I'll bet you've never seen. These are always at the end of the string of detail photos that you see when yoou click on one of the sale lots.
Online catalog: http://jamesdjulia.com/auction/369-october-2014-firearms-auction/?session=1
Some of the new images are huge and if you click on them, they will usually shrink to fill only one screen. They wanted only large pictures, megapixel-wise, but I think I overdid it a little.

 

Think I know what's going on-if you visited any of those items before, you may be getting the cached old image, may need to refresh to get new one. Anyway I'd recommend these to start with for interesting background photos. The cataloger has also taken bulky files I had and linked them to the item with the colored "provenance" link.


http://jamesdjulia.com/item/1387-369/

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/1389-369/

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/1393-369/

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/1394-369/

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/1402-369/

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/1406-369/

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/1428-369/

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/1448-369/

 

On attribution, I only put that where it was required, to the best of my knowledge. Photos I took or the House took aren't attributed. Many others that don't show attribution are "public domain" imagery. Some of the Nat. Archives or L.O.C. images may not have direct, on-photo attribution on each image, but source is usually mentioned in the description text, and those institutions won't sue us anyway. If we screwed up so badly that someone sues us, the auction will be over by that time and we'll just pull that image off the site.

 

Not me in that pic-he's a gent who helps out at the biz from time to time, nickname "Butch." I was taking that pic. I asked him to pose in that pic so as to have a size reference. He's less than medium height which I thought would be good marketing-makes the cannons look bigger. The 7th pic down at this link is what Books was asking about.

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/1393-369/

The 8th. photo down was the real "find" for me-it is a photo taken inside the fort where we know that cannon was ca. 1861, showing what may be that same cannon among a group of other identical ones.