Image of 1903 Springfield

[KevinB]

Some time ago on the old site, a member posted an image from a war poster. It was a soldier leaving home in uniform with a 1903 Springfield. His hunting dog wants to follow him. The soldier states "Not ths time old buddy". If some one has and can repost that inage or a link to it, i'd be grateful

TIA,
Kevin

[Emri]

Check Epay or Gunbroker, or AuctionArms. A seller has been hawking repro's of that poster for years. He puts up a pic in the listing. Search "1903 Springfield", without the parenthesis.

HTH,

Emri

[dukeofdata]

Wonderful poster. I'm a big fan of these also.

http://www.sportingcollectibles.com/SArt/ar31058poster.jpg

http://www.sportingcollectibles.com/sportingartprints.html

[CapnJohn]

American Illustrators Gallery - NOT THIS TRIP, OLD PAL (http://www.americanillustrators.com/artist.php?id=11633)

Go to this site and you should find it. Note, if you don't, google the title of the picture with artist and it should come up.

Nice painting!!!!

[PhillipM]

http://www.askart.com/AskART/photos/CNY2132002/86.jpg This new software will take a little while to get used to

[Mike in Wis.]

Interesting... that pic was from a 1917 Hercules Powder promotional poster or calendar from 1917. I see the artist, ARTHUR DAVENPORT FULLER (1889-1966), actually had a sequel to that one... the homecoming titled "The Surprise Party".

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x297/parallax_2007/picture.jpg

[KevinB]

Excellent!

Thank You Gentlemen!

KB

[CapnJohn]

Thanks!!
I couldn't figure out how to load the pictures!!

[Jim K]

I have seen several versions of that "good bye", but find it hard to envision a situation where an American soldier would have kept his rifle at home or had it with him on leave. Romantic image, but U.S. soldiers (unlike British soldiers) did not keep a particular rifle during their term of service. The rifle was unit property and unless the whole unit was transferred together, the rifles stayed where they were.

Jim

[cary m2a]

Oh lighten up Jim. Its a very patriotic image of a boy leaving a simple, innocent place in his life. We should be proud.