Stock repair on the Czar's Parker

[Robert Delk]

Did they have the original stock repaired and fitted to the Czar's Parker? Just noticed a picture of the original stock and was wondering if Trevallion or someone else made it right again.

[Dean Romig]

At the auction of Parker 168304 the "Czar's Parker" David and I were standing together and he told me that he would be restocking it.
That never happened.... As recently as this summer David has told me he hasn't done it and doesn't even know if it has been restocked to date. Certainly if anyone could repair the original, David could... provided enough pieces of the original remained.

Incidentally Robert, where did you see a picture of the original?



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[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

At the auction of Parker 168304 the "Czar's Parker" David and I were standing together and he told me that he would be restocking it.
That never happened.... As recently as this summer David has told me he hasn't done it and doesn't even know if it has been restocked to date. Certainly if anyone could repair the original, David could... provided enough pieces of the original remained.

Incidentally Robert, where did you see a picture of the original?



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I know when I talked to Jack P before the auction (yes he was going to buy it no matter what, hence the opening bid and telling the lady on the phone bidding for him to practice a "quarter of a million"), he was planning on David doing the stock work.

[Dean Romig]

How well I remember her shouting those words!

As I heard it, Jack had a client for it well before the auction but Jack had it in his possession for a while afterward.





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[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

How well I remember her shouting those words!

As I heard it, Jack had a client for it well before the auction but Jack had it in his possession for a while afterward.





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No, Jack didn't have a client before the auction, it was after the Forbes article about the sale of the gun at auction when he was contacted and sold the gun. Damn it I was going to shoot that gun a week later......

[Dean Romig]

He was one of a kind.

Imagine the level of "savvy" to be able to bid that amount, not knowing how high it might have gone without his opening bid?

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

That's not savvy- that's ballsy. And foxy- probably - scaring away the other bidders.

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

He was one of a kind.

Imagine the level of "savvy" to be able to bid that amount, not knowing how high it might have gone without his opening bid?

He was planning on shutting everyone down with that opening bid, that's why he wanted the girl (who was his phone bidder) to practice in front of a mirror to get the effect right and hopefully shut down everyone else (which is what happened)

[Dean Romig]

So, the question remains - has the gun been restocked (again) or has the original been made right again? Anybody know?





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[Robert Delk]

Somewhere I saw a picture of the gun and a stock with a metal plate over the wrist and assumed that was the original stock.I can't remember where with all the literature I have at the moment.