Mikael,
I did a quick Google search and found Lewald and Schlueter Company Fresno, CA. The link is a book reader from Google which talks about a convention of the Pacific Retail Hardware Association February 9, 1901.
http://books.google.com/books?id=H6f...page&q&f=false
I did not read the whole book but this should answer your question that Lewald and Schlueter was a hardware store where your Parker was bought. It is most likely now out of business. Most privately owned hardware stores are a rarity even today. Home Depot and Lowe's pretty much ran them to the ground and they can't compete with the big retailers.
Here is an interesting twist about your Parker. In a previous post in this thread you stated that your son Mikkel is going to Fresno for a student exchange program. I assume it is Fresno, CA the same city your Parker is lettered to have been purchased from!
Since you are coming to the states to visit Fresno, you could go to the local library there and do research on this old hardware store and maybe you will discover more in the library's archives than you could by searching the net.
The odds of you acquiring this fine Parker at a
flea market and also your son going to study student exchange in the same city is pretty remarkable!
Congrats and keep us posted if you find anything more.
Regards,
Frank
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Originally Posted by mikael_kjaer
I hope i'll be abel to finds its way to Denmark.
I found a Company named "The Schlueter Company" in Fresno it is over 80 years old and produces Dairy products. And as Mark tells the gun was ordered by Lewald and Schlueter Company in Fresno in 1917, Is there a way to find back to old company names in USA and see if they are still exist?
More an more proud Parker owner.
Mikael
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