Help needed
 

For you Parker experts out there.

I'm trying to identify the type of recoil pad used on early Parker SBT's in the 177xxx serial number range. I can't make out the first word other than it definately starts with a P. It's not Silvers or Hawkins (I don't believe). One of the guns I'm doing a letter on and in talking to the guy, it's either a leather covered or leather faced recoil pad. Don't know if it's original.

Attached are 3 examples, all SBT's on the same page in the order book.

Oh the joys of trying to decipher old writing. I got a real kick out of seeing the writing in the order books on display at Remington.

Have you asked Mark

looks like it reads pures pad.

Prem for Premium or Premiere...?

What he said..

Will Dave Noreen know? He is the king of recoil pad research.

No reply from Dave yet. I haven't asked Mark yet.

c. 1920s pads included the Silvers, Funkes, the American Silver pad (sometimes called Grieb) and the Jostam Anti-Flinch, Hy-Gun and the Huntley Sponge Rubber Pad (which Jostam acquired after WW I).
The Hawkins Model 25 Recoil Pad by the Cushion Pad Co. was first offered about 1920. The NOSHOC pads have a June 6, 1922 patent date, but were not found in catalogs until the early 1930s.

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/22972603

I am not aware of any pad called the 'Premium' or 'Premier', but have seen a number of Fox SBTs with original leather faced Jostam pads.

"Pwu" or "Puw" ?