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Unread 12-06-2010, 12:36 PM   #11
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I don't know if the PGCA owns or has the brochure Dean. I asked around before writing the PP article and the only one that ever surfaced was a two page flyer that Mike Kobos was kind to send me and which was owned by him, not the PGCA. The only artifacts that I am aware that are owned by the PGCA are the John Browning AH 12ga gun and a high grade, rather infirm, hammer 10ga. The new 28pg brochure takes the marketing information used by Parker for the P-H rod to a new level and is far beyond what I had seen Parker do before with the exception of the Remington Parker skilled hands catalog.

When writing the Parker Hawes article, we had only a few examples of rods to inspect and photograph. Any Hawes rod is rare and any Parker-Hawes rod is rarer still. Perhaps you are correct, that more will be forthcoming now. The small, lightweight examples for very light lines are intruiging and I'd like the opportunity to inspect those.
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Bruce; It is a two frame gun, 207469, with original unstruck weight 3 pounds 15 ounces.
It balances precisely at the hinge pin and is a very sleek gun, with a silhouette much like a 30 inch 16.
I have two other "light" 12's with nearby s/n; a 30 inch VH at 7 pounds 2ounces; 3 pounds 13 unstruck, and a 28 inch DH 6 pounds 15 ounces 3 pounds 9 unstruck. These are both 1 1/2 frames. The missing E accounts for most of this; stamping that E after the H adds 3 - 4 ounces.
With respect to your original post; we noted in an article in PP a couple of years back that PH (E) engraving was unchanged through the production run.

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Col. Day: " The only artifacts that I am aware that are owned by the PGCA are the John Browning AH 12 ga gun and a high grade, rather infirm, hammer 10 ga. "
I hope they still have a sorta rough 14 ga backaction (PP vol. 11, issue 4, page 29).
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Yes, they do, I had forgotten about that. I remember seeing one backaction that wobbled and would take some effort to get to the standards most people expect for display guns. Don't recall it being a 14ga but it probably was. I haven't seen these guns for a couple years, maybe more. The Browning gun has been shown around since it was repaired and fixed up.
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I had recently heard or read that some kind of inventory of the PGCA collection was being contemplated. Where are we on that project? There are at least a couple of people on this thread who also appear on the "masthead". Again, where are we on that project?
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Personally Bill, I don't know. I haven't asked. I do recall however, that something along the lines of 'taking an inventory of PGCA property' had been alluded to.
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As of right now I don't know either. But I hear something is in the work's stay tuned.
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Dr Gaddy and my burst barrels made the display circuit for a while. Can they still be accounted for?

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