Parker factory recoil pad
 

What recoil pads was parker using at the factory in 1928 on a vh gun gonna have the gun fitted to me and was wanting to keep it period correct as possible

Thanks, Steven

By that time most any of the popular vintage pads would be appropriate.

Lots of options by 1928, and modern repros are available
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...Q/edit?tab=t.0

Mrs. W.A. Davis at the 1917 GAH with a “Huntley Shock Absorber Pad”, which became the Jostam Sponge Rubber 2-Ply pad after WWI.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Vintage-R...vis-1917-S.jpg

What frame size is your VH?

0 frame sir

On an 0 frame gun, I would go for a No Shoc pad. I think Tony has repro No Shoc pads.

Thank you sir, you referring to Connecticut?? They do have a decent selection of replica pads.

The most popular pad in the late teens, 1920s & 30s was the JOSTAM ANTI-FLINCH --

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unfortunately, the one popular period pad that hasn't been reproduced. It was the standard pad for the lower grade A.H. Fox guns, numerous J. Stevens models, etc. Finding a NOS JOSTAM ANTI-FLINCH is getting pretty tough!!

CSMC's repro No-Shoc is the large size with 3 1/4" hole spacing and will require quite a bit of grinding to fit an 0-frame stock.

Another choice would be JOSTAM HY-GUN. The patent covering its design was granted Sept. 20, 1927. The HY-GUN repro is also a large size and will require a lot of grinding.

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I have a few original hy-gun pads on hand in the smaller sizes.

Connecticut Shotgun has them

To my eyes that looks like a JOSTAM three-ply.

Drew I have some circumstantial evidence that JOSTAM had a sponge rubber pad by 1916. This undated broadside --

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was in this 1916 post marked envelope --

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Thanks Dave.
The S.A. Huntley patent for the multi-layer sponge-rubber pad was granted April 10, 1917, Patent No. 1,222,291.

Here's a promo for the Huntley pad in Nov. 1917 Outing
https://books.google.com/books?id=V4...J&pg=PA124&lpg

This is the pad in the 1920 Folsom catalog

https://photos.smugmug.com/Vintage-R...h%20pads-L.jpg

FWIW, by the 1937 JOSTAM catalog the Goodrich pad is part of their line --

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