A.E. Brooks's collection of antique guns, pistols, etc., Hartford, Conn
A privately issued catalogue of A. E. Brooks's personal holdings of antique firearms, published in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1899 for collectors and dealers. Halftone photographs show muskets, rifles, flintlock pistols and ramrods laid in rows on dark cloth, giving designers repeating silhouettes of stocks, locks and barrels usable as pattern, border or cut-out stencil material.
