Parker with gold Inlay

[Ed Blake]

Could we see more of the gun?

[Bruce Day]

Bill, a DGJ article would be great also.

Art Wheaton has a great article in this quarter's Double Gun Journal that involved research into the PGCA records, and he thanks Mark Conrad for his help. Did you ask Mark to check the records for you? I know that whenever I have asked Mark for assistance, he has been more than helpful.

There is another Parker article this quarter about a C grade with nice and unusual engraving. I don't believe that author is a PGCA member .....he would have been aided by seeing some of the deep cut and rondel engraving C's we have pictured here over the years and shown at exhibits.

We consistently have great Parker articles in the Parker Pages and the DGJ, and I'm glad you and Chris will be doing an article......it all helps Parker collecting.

Bruce Day, Parker novice and so much to learn

[Bill Murphy]

Bruce, as much as you enjoy stirring the pot if it does not affect your close personal contacts, Mark Conrad has nothing to do with the situation I describe about being denied access to the PGCA research collection to prepare articles for the Parker Pages. Mark Conrad has been more than helpful to me in my research. It is other PGCA powers that have been behind the denial of access to research material.

[Bruce Day]

I'm not stirring your pot or anyone else's. I don't know and don't care what got you crosswise with the board, nor is it any of my business. All I know is that the PGCA research has been great for me and they have been very accomodating . I'm very pleased that you will write a DGJ article, all this about the Million Dollar Pier and the Dupont Shooting Schools is new to me, and I look forward to reading the article.

Just take my post at face value. No agenda other than encouraging great Parker articles.

[Autumn Daze]

Chris, This is a wonderful and very interesting Parker. Thank you for sharing this gun with us.

[AmarilloMike]

Chris that is a beautiful and desirable gun. Congratulations and thanks for posting it here.

Best,

Mike

[Bill Murphy]

Yup, it is about the rarest of the rare, a gold inlaid gun with factory documentation and important provenance.

[Ed Blake]

That for end looks different to me, sort of a semi-BT. And the checkering is different. Is it aftermarket or some strange Parker variant?

[Dean Romig]

No question of it being a presentation or display Parker with that wood. You'll likely never see another Grade 3 Parker with that quality wood.

[CSL]

I was checking my files on past material concerning the Dupont shooting facility at Young's pier and came across an old e-mail from Murphy back in November of 2006... Bill and I were discussing Parker Dupont Try-Guns, and he also mentioned what I believe is the same 20ga DHE shown to us in this thread... Bill said he had never actually seen the gun, but he thought it had been sent to the Dupont shooting school at the end of Young's pier... I remember thinking the chances of seeing a DH 20ga with a gold scripted Parker Bros bottom frame surfacing anytime soon were probably pretty slim, but now 5 years later here it is... This is what keeps things interesting in the world of "Parkerdom", you never know what you might see or find from day to day... I'm an avid researcher and long time collector of early live bird and trap shooting history, and also enjoy interesting old double gun provenance... This is a very unique Parker and it would be a fun gun to research, I hope Chris Davis can provide us with some additional larger photos for a better overall look... Like we sometimes say, if only this gun could talk and tell it's story, imagine the many adventures in might reveal... Part of solving this mystery will be to figure out the identity of "F.B. Potts" and the significance of "#717"... I've been looking, has anyone else found anything, Dave Noreen, Murphy, Drew?...

Best, CSL
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