Very Cool Parker History

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by mike corley

My gun was originally purchased in 1927 by one Mrs. Vincent Astor! Her husband being the son of John Jacob Astor IV who was lost on the Titanic. Her name was Helen Dinsmore Huntington. They were married for 26 years.
She had the gun for 6 months and took it back to Von Lengerke & Detmold.

I wonder if she might have been a daughter of known sporting artist Dwight W. Huntington (1860 - 1906). And and she may have bought the gun for someone else, like a son or daughter or nephew.... who later decided they really didn't want it or maybe wished for something better? .... or maybe it was purchased as a prop for a painting - we'll probably never know without exhaustive research.