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Hills visit Hillside Farm

2006 Maine Trip

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2008 Maine Trip

2011 Maine Trip

Pickles, 2007

2008 Allentown Flower Show

2007 Oley Fair

Camp August 2006

Camp ShiHam

Florida Spring Baseball

Florida Trips

Williamsburg 2007

Williamsburg 2001

Penn State Football 10-1-05

Penn State Football 9-8-07

Deanne Big 50th....

Brad & Deanne 25 years

Christmas 2005

2003 Halloween Party

2004 Halloween Party

2005 Halloween Party

2007 Halloween Party

2008 Halloween Party

2009 Halloween Party

Cicada at Hillside Farm

What they sounded like

Fall, 2005 at Hillside Farm

Flora at Hillside Farm

Pigeon Shooting

Pennsylvania Elk

Comet Hale-Bopp, 1997

Fleetwood Baseball

Family/Hillside Farm Pics

New England Lighthouses

My Personal History

1915 DuPont
Fred Gilbert Honor Shoot
Trophy

1907 DuPont
Trapshoot Shoot Trophy

1906 NYAC
Trapshoot Shoot Trophy

1913 Reed & Barton
PSSA State Shoot
Trophy

Indian/Buffalo Nickel (obverse)
1913-1938

American Eagle Silver Dollar
(obverse)
1986-present (one ounce
pure silver) Bullion Coin

Proof
American Eagle Silver Dollar
(obverse)
1986-present (one ounce
pure silver) Bullion Coin

Franklin Half Dollar (obverse)
1948-1963

Barber Half Dollar (obverse)
1892-1915

Large Cent (Braided)
(obverse)
1840-1857

Large Cent (Coronet Head)
(obverse)
1816-1839

Large Cent (Classic Head)
(obverse)
1804-1814

Large Cent (Draped Bust)
(obverse)
1796-1807

Wheat Cent (reverse)
(obverse)
1909-1958

Memorial Cent (reverse)
1959-present

Flying Eagle Cent (obverse)
1856-1858

Two Cent Piece (obverse)
1864-1873

Nickel-Three Cent Piece (reverse)
1865-1889

Flowing Hair Half Dime (obverse)
1794-1795

Caped Bust Five Cents (obverse)
or Half Dime
1829-1837

Seated Liberty Half Dine (obverse)
1837-1873

Shield Five Cents (reverse)
1862-1867

Liberty Head Five Cents (obverse)
1883-1913

Mercury Dime (obverse)
1916-1945

Jefferson Nickel (obverse)
1938-present

Draped Bust Dime (obverse)
1896-1907

Capped Bust Dime (obverse)
1809-1837

Seated Liberty Dime (obverse)
1837-1891

Lincoln Cent (reverse)
Released 2/12/2009

Lincoln Cent (reverse)
Released 5/14/2009

Lincoln Cent (reverse)
Released 8/13/2009

Lincoln Cent (reverse)
Released 11/12/2009

Lincoln Shield Cent (reverse)
Released 2/11/2010

Indian Head Cent (obverse)
1859-1909

Colonial Chain Cent (obverse)
First Minted American Coin
Recently sold for $1.36 million
1793 Only

Colonial Chain Cent (reverse)
First Minted American Coin
Recently sold for $1.36 million
1793 Only

Peace Silver Dollar (obverse)
1921-1935

Morgan Silver Dollar (obverse)
1878-1904 (+ 1921)

Carson City
Morgan Silver Dollar (obverse)
1878-1885.....1889-1893
GSA Holder

Trade Dollars (obverse)
1873-1885

State Quarter (reverse)
1999-2008

Sacagawea Dollar (obverse)
2000-2010

Sacagawea Dollar (reverse)
2010

Sacagawea Native (reverse)
Indian Dollar
2009

James Buchanan
Presidential Dollar Coin
Released Aug. 18th, 2010
PA's Only President

Bald Eagle Dollar (obverse)
2008 US Mint
One Ounce Pure Silver
Commemorative

Lincoln Dollar (obverse)
2009 US Mint
One Ounce Pure Silver
Commemorative

Eisenhower Dollar (obverse)
1971-1978

Susan B. Anthony Dollar (obverse)
1979-1981 (+1999)

Walking Liberty Half (reverse)
1916-1947

Washington Quarter (obverse)
1932-present

Saint Gaudens $20.00 Gold
Doubles Eagle
"Most Beautiful Coin Ever Minted"
1907-1933

Indian Head Five Dollar Gold
(obverse) Half Eagle
1908-1929

Indian Head $10.00 Gold (obverse)
Eagle
1907-1933

Turban Head Five Dollar Gold
(obverse) Half Eagle
1795-1807

Liberty Head Five Dollar Gold
(obverse) Half Eagle
1839-1866)

American Buffalo
Fifty Dollar Gold Coin (obverse)
(2005-present)

American Gold Eagle
Fifty Dollar Gold Coin (obverse)
(1986-present)

America The Beautiful
Mt. Hood Quarter (obverse)
(2010)

America The Beautiful
Hot Springs Quarter (obverse)
(2010)

America The Beautiful
Grand Canyon Quarter (obverse)
(2010)

America The Beautiful
Yosemite Quarter (obverse)
(2010)

America The Beautiful
Yellowstone Quarter (obverse)
(2010)

1953 A Star Note
Five Dollar Note (obverse)

1918 Boston Federal Note
One Dollar Note (obverse)

1917 Large Red Seal Note
Two Dollar Note (obverse)

1899 "Chief" (obverse)
Five Dollar Silver Certificate

1901 "Bison"
Ten Dollar Note (obverse)

1907 "Woodchopper"
Five Dollar Note (obverse)

1899 "Black Eagle"
One Dollar Note (obverse)

1917 "Sawhorse"
One Dollar Note (obverse)

1899 "Mini-Porthole"
Two Dollar Note (obverse)

1922 (obverse)
One Hundred Dollar Gold Certificate

1922 (obverse)
Fifty Dollar Gold Certificate

1922 (reverse)
Fifty Dollar Gold Certificate

1922 (reverse)
One Hundred Dollar Gold Certificate

1922 (reverse)
Five Hundred Dollar Gold Certificate

1922 (reverse)
Ten Dollar Gold Certificate

1922 (reverse)
Twenty Dollar Gold Certificate

1896 "Educational"
One Dollar Note (obverse)

1896 "Educational"
Two Dollar Note (obverse)

1914 Kansas City Fed. Reserve
Five Dollar Note (reverse)

1914 Cleveland Fed. Reserve Type B
Ten Dollar Note (reverse)

1914 Chicago Fed. Reserve
Twenty Dollar Note (reverse)

1914 St. Louis Fed. Reserve
One Hundred Dollar Note (reverse)

1918 "Green Eagle"
One Dollar Note (reverse)

1918 "Battleship"
Two Dollar Note (reverse)

1890 "Grand Watermelon"
One Thousand Dollar Note (obverse)
Recently sold for $2,255,000

1905 "Technicolor" (obverse)
Twenty Dollar Gold Note

1863 Lincoln
Ten Dollar Note (obverse)

1929 Fleetwood, PA (obverse)
Twenty Dollar Red Seal

1891 Silver Certificate
Twenty Dollar Note (obverse)

1891 Silver Certificate
Fifty Dollar Note (obverse)
Fifty Silver Dollars

1882 Gold Coin Certificate
Twenty Dollar Note (obverse)

1934 Fed. Reserve Note
Chicago District
Five Thousand Dollar Note (obverse)

NEW AMERICAN NOTES

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Ben Franklin

Rare 19th Century Shooting
Tobacco Cards

1926-2012
The PSU Trustees fire JoePa and do nothing
about a real scoundrel , Michael Mann, the fraud that made up information on global warming with his made up hockey stick and was involved in the UK email scandals concerning the fraudulent science of global warming. This group of trustees have shown the world how corrupt they are.

"I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Joe Paterno. He was an outstanding American who was respected not only on the field of play but in life generally and he was, without a doubt, a true icon in the world of sports. I was proud that he was a friend of mine. Barbara and I send our condolences to his devoted wife Suzanne and to his wonderful family."

...............................................................George H. W. Bush

(note: JoePa was a Republican conservative and nominated President H. W. Bush at the 1988 Republican Convention. He was probably the only faculty conservative at this liberal cesspool called Penn State.)

Jamie's wedding, December 3, 2012

The Newest Hamilton

Steven John Hamilton
Born: Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Parents: Jon & Selina Hamilton
Grandparents: Bradley & Deanne Hamilton
Great-Grandparents: Richard & Judy Hamilton


Ashburn	Bunning	Schmidt	Carlton	Roberts

55^o and sunny at Hillside Farm on January 1, 2012.

15-20 inch wet snow at Hillside Farm on October 27, 2011.
(No electricity for 7 days.)

106^o at Hillside Farm on July 23, 2011.

103^o at Hillside Farm on July 22, 2011.

55^o at Hillside Farm at 2:00 PM February 17, 2011.

- 3^o at Hillside Farm at 8:00 AM January 22, 2011.

102^o at Hillside Farm at 2:00 PM July 6, 2010.

Singles, Doubles, Handicap and HAA Awards
Maine State Shoot, July, 2011

July, 2011 at Hillside.

Richard & Judy at Sturbridge Village on July 13, 2011

Richard & Judy at L. L. Bean on July 14, 2011

SPRING HAS SPRUNG AT HILLSIDE FARM
MAY, 2011

5 young fox living under a shed in our yard. April, 2011

Judy's cat Blackberry...July 11, 2010

Richard with his 2010 PA State chair doubles trophy.

Kay Lynn & Emerson's party at PA State Shoot, June 16, 2010

Emerson Bornman's HOF induction. Kay Lynn was his presenter.
June 19, 2010

Janice and Aubrey Hill (UK) visit the Hamilton's, Nov. 2-4, 2009

Aubrey Hill at Valley Forge, November 3, 2009

Emerson Bornman's first bear after 43 years. Shot in northern
Maine on October 12, 2009.

Judy goes 5 for 5 at the county fair in Oley, PA,
plus a winning flower arrangement. See more.

On Wednesday evening, June 18th, 2008, Toby, our loveable Ryman English Setter, died. He went peacefully. He was much too young to die. He was like a meteorite in our lives: his 5+ years was a brief, bright presence and now he's gone. We look in the places where he was and he's not there. His big, bright spirit brought a richness to our lives and our hearts - and now leaves us with a deep sadness.

- The entire Hamilton family

Another recently found photo of Winston
dressed in his Santa outfit.

Annie Oakley (left) and Frank Butler (right)

Moon Over Hillside
Moon taken at 8:54 PM on October 8, 2006 with my
Canon EOS Rebel 300D Digital SLR Camera and 75-300 mm
Canon zoom lens. The lens was set at 300mm
with a speed of 1/800 second at F/5.6.

History Channel Credits after program "Sharp Shooters."

Thank You from History Channel program "Hands on History; Bullets."

In the past year I have contributed information and photographs to the History Channel for programs on Hands on History, Production of Bullets and another on Sharpshooters. I have also contributed information and pictures for a book to be published this fall on Sporting Memorabilia being put together by SoldUSA Auctions. I also provided pictures and information for the NRA magazine Outlook, May, 2006 issue. The magazine is devoted to NRA women. I have also provided photographs for Sporting Magazine for an article on Fred Gilbert.

Update: I just supplied Federal Ammunition with photographs for a DVD they are developing for in-house sales training. The DVD will not be made available to the public. Recently I also provided a photograph for publication in Shotgun News.

Our newest Family members, Annie (left) and Frank (right)

On Saturday evening, January 14th, 2006, Gilbert died. He went peacefully. He was like a meteorite in our lives: his 12+ years was a brief, bright presence and now he's gone. We look in the places where he was and he's not there. His big, bright spirit brought a richness to our lives and our hearts - and now leaves us with a deep sadness.

- Richard and Judy

OUR THREE CHILDREN


Matthew Hamilton	Kay Lynn Hamilton Bornman	Bradley Hamilton

Judy, my wife
KayLynn, my daughter	Jamie, my grand daughter

Mom (Richard)

Deanne, my daughter-in-law

Mom (Judy)

My cousin, HOF pitcher Herb Pennock.

Beat Kay Ohye 50-49 in shootoff.

Won a one round shootoff with 25 straight for title.

Richard, Ray Stafford and Dick Baldwin, 2004 PA State Shoot.

Richard, Mel Stottlemyre, Jean Stottlemyre,
Judy Hamilton and Ron Guidry.

Dick Baldwin, Mel Stottlemyre, Ron Guidry, Richard Hamilton

Our new 2006 Nissan Armada SUV.

Our home away from home.

Collector of sporting and trapshooting memorabilia. Including vintage clay targets, glass target balls, clay target traps, vintage pigeon traps, vintage photographs, shotgun shell boxes, shell box inserts, envelopes, postcards, catalogs, posters, calendars, die cuts, brochures, old books and magazines, trapshooting medals and fobs, old pin backs, contemporary trap shooting pins, old trapshooting trophies, wooden shell crates, vintage shotgun shell reloaders, memorabilia from Winchester, Rem-UMC, Remington, DuPont, Peters, Ithaca, Marlin and many others.

A selection of shell box inserts in my collection.

Who started the game of “glass ball” shooting in the United States is not in doubt. Every historian credits Charles Portlock of Boston as introduced or originating the sport in the year 1866. The first competitive shoots began in 1867 in the Boston area. Unfortunately the game did not have too much success, as the traps used at the time only threw the glass balls straight into the air. Obviously this was not much of a challenge to a shooter who was used to a darting, fast flying pigeon which – when released from its trap – tore off in any direction in order to escape from its temporary prison.

I know of no other type of glass articles, which is as difficult to locate. In seeking them out I have ended up with offers of lightning rod balls, Japanese fishing floats, Christmas tree ornaments, witches' balls, dentists alcohol lamps and even a few bottles. This situation exists because about 99 percent of those people who have a target ball do not know what it really is.

Fortunately, most of them were attractive enough to be kept. Many ended up where lots of people thought they belonged – on Christmas trees.

Trying to research the makers of these items is one of the most difficult tasks of all. A few have patent dates on them, but only a very small amount of these were produce by the patentee.

Recently I purchased this easel back Winchester die cut advertising the Winchester Junior Trapshooting Outfit. I have never seen one before. The die cut is cardboard and made to display on a sporting goods counter top. The advertisement was made in the very early 1920's.

This DuPont poster, measuring about 38"x271/2", is possibly the only remaining poster. Made in about 1903 it honors two early trapshooting greats. I purchased this poster several years ago and it is the "anchor" of my collection. The two DuPont "shooting stars" are John Garrett and Hall of Famer Fred Gilbert. Gilbert is the greatest pigeon shooter of all time.

This US Cartridge poster, is very rare. Made in 1890 it honors 75 early trapshooting stars. I purchased this twice, selling it once than several years later I reacquired the poster.

Below are several examples from my collection of colorful envelopes from gun and powder companies. Most envelopes are just as colorful on the reverse side. Today the few remaining covers are highly sought by collectors.

Below are several examples trapshooting scorecards from my collection. These cards were popular forms of small advertising. They were made by most gun and powder companies.

Done after printing as part of the finishing process, die cuts are areas of an advertisement that are partially or completely cut, shaped, or cut-out in a variety of shapes. The die cut is almost on heavy cardboard with an easel back. The die is a steel blade used to punch out the desired shape. Colorful sporting die cuts are very collectable and highly sought.

The first two towers were in Philadelphia (Sparks Shot Tower) in 1808 and the Jackson Ferry Tower in Wytheville, Virginia in 1807. Both these towers produced shot and bullets for the War of 1812. The Sparks Shot Tower in Philadelphia is the first "smoke stack" type tower in America. Most of the Jackson Ferry Tower in Virginia is underground. The Sparks and Jackson Ferry towers still stand. I visited both several years ago. Below are bags and salesmen's samples from Tatham's Shot Tower in New York, Colliers Shot Tower in St. Louis and The Globe Shot Tower, also in Philadelphia.

Three very rare shot tower relics from the 1800's
Globe Salesmen's Shot Samples
Tatham's Salesmen's Shot Samples
Collier's Salesmen's Shot Samples

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