Attach your copies of Glock ads here! To be stickied.
What magazine, year, month was this add please?An ad for the safety brochure that Glock began adding to their instruction manual packets:
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HAH !!The infamous ad that's STILL making people fear they'll lose their eyebrows if they shoot a "C" model:
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I'm not a commemorative guy, but I do want a Desert Storm G17 in the worst way.
Awesome post!
Unfortunately, I cannot make out the serial number on the Gen1 19. Somebody told me that the ad is from 1991, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.Awesome post!
What year is the ad w the Gen 1s at the top of your post?
Can u make out the Gen 1 19 SN?
Interesting that they only list 17 L and not 17 L P as well.
Thank you again for the insight. I know they came with 1995 G26/27 G2.5 packages. I’m trying to narrow down further like are they with original 1991 manual packs, 1990 manual packs?I'll keep you in mind if I find the original, or run across another one.
As for #2, I'll mention that I recently noticed an abbreviated, skinny sidebar-type version of that ad that ran in several Glock Annuals I was browsing, including the 2000, 2001, and 2002 versions (on page 6 of each, if you have one of them handy). I have some experience in print-ad creation (for newspapers) from many years ago, and in my experience, they build a large ad first, then shrink/chop/resize it as needed to make it smaller for smaller "ad holes" in various newspapers/magazines. Based on that, I'd guess the original full-page ad was made no later than the late 1990s (although it could well have run in any later-dated magazine), but they wouldn't have run any of the ads until after they started using the pamphlets, so I'd educated-guess it was 1999 or earlier.
I'd also mention that this ad isn't really a general-purpose, wide-appeal ad. It seems to be targeted at new gun owners (or potential gun owners), not experienced shooters or law enforcement personnel, so it probably wouldn't run in print magazines aimed at those audiences. I'd primarily look at entry-level gun magazines for this ad, or perhaps specialized "New Owner"-themed issues.
Finally, this forum is a great source of information, as you have many serious collectors here. It's possible that a request for them to check their collections of LNIB-with-all-accessories Glock pistol boxes for the first known occurrence of this pamphlet might get you a few responses which could narrow-down the start-year possibilities, at least (as my response may have done, above).
Thank you so much. I’ll be buying up the 1994-1995 ones searching for these two I don’t have and didn’t know about!Some more ads I ran across recently; all were from the magazine "Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement", from July 1994 to July 1995:
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And this one, while not a Glock ad, seemed interesting, as it appears to be an ad taking a shot at Glocks (about the only service-caliber "plastic pistols" around at that time - 1994/1995). It was reminiscent of the early stages of the "Where's the Beef?" ad war between Ruger and S&W:
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