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Unread 07-02-2014, 05:08 PM   #31
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you boys got any more of these fine posters....charlie
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old thread - but i saw this one on eBay while looking for something else

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Very cool and His signature is right there in the lower left.






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John and I were 'talking' the other day and I mentioned my recollection of an LL Bean catalog from my youth, which showed LL's DHE. I went looking for a copy of it, and while I'm not sure I found the one I remember, I did find a 1970 catalog showing his Parker. I bought it, and when it gets here, I'll post a picture of it.
I remember those old LL Bean catalogs. The gun was a DHE and it was owned by LL himself. I asked someone at the store and they told me that it was LL's personal gun that he hunted with. He was gone when the catalogs were done and I would imagine that it was then owned by a member of the family.
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Quite a few years ago I do remember that Herscial Chaddick had it for sale.

I inquired but I was too late.....

He ,of course, wouldn't divulge who purchased it.....
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The DHE is still on display in the mezzanine between the ground floor hunting and shooting department and the second floor fishing department in Freeport, Maine. It is mounted vertically in a glass or plexi-glass case. That DHE has a "sinestral" stock because of the loss of vision in the right eye that LL suffered later in life.

I asked the gun department manager if I could examine it and do a photo layout and story on the gun for Parker Pages and he said "Yes, please do."
When I came back with my photography stuff about a month later I was told by the manager of advertising and publicity "Absolutely not!"

I've been treated poorly by Bean's before that so it wasn't a huge surprise.... just a big slap in the face.

The LL Bean Parker that was sold several years ago went through JD Julia Auctions and it was a CHE.





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The one shown in the catalog photos I posted previously did not have a sinestral stock.
I’m not at all surprised by their response to your request, Dean, but you may recall our conversation out on the deck on one of my visits with you, (well, with Kathy, but you were there) that I had a positive response from the local LLB people when I approached them to shoot some photos wth their products with one of my DHEs. I have not, as yet followed up but will when their winter line is out. Any excuse to pick up another shirt, doncha know.
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Good luck Edgar - I'll be interested to learn how that goes. It will probably come off without a hitch.

I'm sure the final answer I got, refusing my request, came from a 'non-gun' guy who doesn't really understand the mindset of a true lover of Parkers.

Your Parker and their clothes, etc. is definitely a different story.





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[QUOTE=Dean Romig;254743]Good luck Edgar - I'll be interested to learn how that goes. It will probably come off without a hitch.

I'm sure the final answer I got, refusing my request, came from a 'non-gun' guy who doesn't really understand the mindset of a true lover of Parkers.

Your Parker and their clothes, etc. is definitely a different story.


But that's the point, Beans was founded on hunting, it's not just Parker's they try and sell hunting and fishing but they really don't care about that part. It sucks !
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It's not just them. I was in Cabela's Wheeling, WV Gun Library a few weeks ago and saw a shotgun that I thought I could perhaps be interested in purchasing. One of their people at my request got the gun out of the case and handed it to me. I moved the top lever right to check the gun and this didn't make him happy. Then when I asked for him to remove the trigger lock I was informed that was "impossible under any circumstances". Seems they have a new policy. So I have adopted a new policy myself.
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