Hello from france, I seek various labels for reenactment.......

[tom]

Hi all,

I am a French old west reenactor and to make better reenactment,  I seek to use it, printable various labels of victorian period for whiskey and beer bottle, medicine, food cans, manufactured goods, tobacco, sheriff office papers, wanted, etc..........................and all for the old time every day life.........
And all about

Thank you, best rebards......


Here, some photographs of us in France:

[St. George]

Many thanks for your photos - you guys look great.

As to locating some Victorian-era labels and such - I'm certain that readers will be able to supply you with places to contact, and I'll pass this along to the NCOWS Forum as well.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Tom,
You guys look Awesome!! Where are you in France??

For period correct lables, try Dixie Gun Works in Union City Tennessee. Their address is: P.O. Box 130, Union City TN. 38281, Phone Number 1-800-238-6785. Dixie carries a pretty good supply of period correct labels and boxes.

A lot of the guys on the NCOWS forum (National Congress of Old West Shootists), make their own labels, especially the labels that can't be purchased. You ought to check us out, we're really into the history of the Old West.

Megwetch (thanks)

Bill Proctor

[tom]

Thank you men,

We try to make the best possible, you will see our association, Maryland Ranch,  in web french federation: http://ffava.free.fr/indexfr.htm

We are close to the city of PARIS.
Sorry, my traduction is not very good.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Great pictures, Tom.

Slim

[tom]

Labels from Dixie Gun Works are very beautiful but it's expensive to obtain several of them, may be to apply inside one  beautifull cased gun replica but no more.
But this labels are a best idiea.

[Chance]

Great photos, Tom. You do the West credit!

[tom]

Thank you CHANCE,

This is really the best period..............

other views for the fun ?

[LazyK Pejay]

Your pictures are terrific. You folks have done a great job; makes me think of Texas ;-)

Kind regards,

LazyK Pejay

[Pawnee Bill]

Here are a few links with labels 

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/picamer/paAdverts.html


http://www.jackandfriends.com/store/catalog/product_1330_General_Store_STAPLES_Boxes_set_3.html
Cheers
Pawnee Bill

[Forty Rod]

Try Victor Trading Company

www.victortradingco.com/tincan.htm

They are expensive, but they have some things I haven't seen anywhere else.

Good luck.

[Dai.S.Loe]

Bonjour Mousieur Tom.

What wonderful pictures and thanks for the link to the French web page.

I lived for many years in Payes de Galles and never knew that there was a thriving community of cowboys in France.

I now live in New Zealand.


My congratulations to you all.

I wish that our sets over here were as authentic looking as yours.

For sharing your site I thank you.

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To all you others I would thoroughly reccomend going to the site Tom posted. Very intuitive and some really great pictud=res from the French clubs. I was blown away by how hard they have tried to recreate 19th Century USA.

Dai.

[Ol Gabe]

Bonjour!
Excellent pics and you win big on 'style points' for sure and certain! Your store fronts are spot-on and the wagons are just like they came out off of Open Range movie set. But what I really want to know is how our own Dr. Bob got in the last picture, HAH! Now that took some real talent with PhotoShop! Only kidding all, but it does look like Dr. Bob from the back, mostly.
Hope you can make it across the Pond sometime, let us know if you can and we'll put on a real International NCOWS Shindig!
Best regards and good shooting!

[Lou Graham]

Tom, you and your pards have done a great job and I thank you for sharing the pictures with us.  The link below is to Rattlesnake Jack's website.  He is one of our pards from Canada.  He has lots of downloadable fonts and Wanted Poster formats and clip art and all kinds of useful things.  I've made my own signs and labels using the fonts from his web site and it works pretty good.  Best part is: he has it all there for free for us cowboys to use.

http://members.memlane.com/gromboug/

[Wymore Wrangler]

Outstanding pictures....   My compliments to you and your fellow renactors!!!!

[tom]

Cordial thanks to you all,

That makes me hot in the heart

Sure, it's not your Mr Bob in the last picture, it is inside the barber shop in the fourth picture, city of "LANGTRY" in the south of France, AWA association, Association Western des Alpilles.
All these pictures did not know Mrs  photoshop or Corel draw but very useful to made my own labels and other like this copy of cartrdidges box from original view, home made:


I know SULLIVAN PRESS for papers, LONE STAR COWBOY GEAR for old west signs, RATTLESNAKE JACK, and other...

Pays de Galles is a beautifull country, DAI, all "western"  french clubs are not hard, each reenactor or shooter must know where to go according to its own competences and what he wants to make.

I do not like the reconstitution camping  but I like the detail, it is the reason of this post and I accept with pleasure scanner labels pictures via EMAIL from all people who will want to help me.

This links are a good beginning.

sincerely

[Irish Dave]

Tom:

What great photos and excellent outfits. You folks certainly are capturing the spirit of the Old West.
I would also invite you to check out the NCOWS forum here on CAS City because it also offers a lot of good information about the real Old West.


I have been to France a couple of times and have some very good friends in the St. Etienne area.
Good to know the Old West is alive in your country.

[Chance]

Tom, can I have your permission to use one or two of your photos for a series of magazine articles that I'm writing? I will credit you of course.

Chance

[mtmarfield]

   Bonjour!

  My Grandmother Blanchard was from Gap, in the 'Alps', and spoke French and the Patoise; it's great to see You Folks reenacting in France! Great photos!

              Stay In Touch!

                                M.T.Marfield
                                   6-22-06

                                   

[tom]

Thank you again,


PM for you, Chance....