Trying to locate VH 12ga ##121210

[MarketHunter]

This is an interesting thread, I'd only ever seen a couple Morrow calls and had no idea they came with different marketing labels.

DLH

[DuncanMorrow]

Marketing labels would be an innacurate characterization in reference to Sandys calls. I don't think you are going to see anyone hawking a "John Alexander Duck Call by Marshall Field". Where his calls were originally sourced from in most cases is probably lost to time/history with few exceptions. I have never run into anyone that knew where their call was originally sold and could prove it.

[MarketHunter]

Oh I thought you all meant that there were Morrow calls known that had store labels from the places they were sold. Some callmakers did that, an example would be Charles Perdew and the calls he sold through VL&A in Chicago.

DLH

[Whitefish]

The Perdew calls from VL&A have four panels carved on the barrel of the call. In one of the panels he carved the initials VL&A and would also add the owners initials if they wished. These calls are sometimes called the " ST. Francis Call ". Charles Perdew only made Duck and Crow calls. His duck calls were either the plain cedar model or the fancy carved calls with flying ducks. His crow calls were similar in plain cedar or the fancy carved ones with crows and owls. No Perdew calls had labels of any kind attached. All Perdew calls are very collectable as are his duck decoys.