Parker small catalog with Revised price list dated November 18, 1916 attached to cove

[Twoatlow8]

Once in a while you could catch one on the Hartman boys, but not often.
They were very shrewd traders.

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

Like most of the longtime gun shows, the Syracuse and Albany shows have gone the way of the MREs. black gun accessories, and flavored venison jerky assortments. Never bought a gun at Syracuse, but scored the very best 32" Browning Superposed Grade 3 ("Fighting Cocks") trap with the narrow rib, long tang and round knob grip I'd ever seen from the Hartman Bros. (Elmira Arms) at a fall Albany show one year.

Price was obscenely cheap; "No one wants those old long-barreled Browning traps unless they're a Broadway rib!" I stopped at the show on a whim while on the way to visit with PGCA Historian and TPS co-author Roy Gunther, then living in Averill Park, just east of Albany, to research the Sunderland gun, which I subsequently wrote an article on for the Double Gun Journal ("The Graduation Gun"). Weather was perfect for travel and shunpike diversions; the show and my visit with CDR Gunther made for a near-perfect road trip.

[Bill Jolliff]

Originally Posted by Scott Janowski

Once in a while you could catch one on the Hartman boys, but not often.
They were very shrewd traders.

At the Syracuse, Albany and Rochester shows, you also would likely see Jim Austin (Kittery Point), Pete Harvey, Randy Shuman and Hershel Chaddick. And that big, tall Jewish guy from Long Island who usually had nice stuff on his table (I can't remember his name).

Those were the days. New York state politicians have pretty much doomed anything like that anymore.

[ahfoxman]

Hi Bill,

His name was Henry Christman, and he found me some truly outstanding doubles in NYC and out on Long Island.

[Bill Jolliff]

Originally Posted by Tom Kidd

Hi Bill,

His name was Henry Christman, and he found me some truly outstanding doubles in NYC and out on Long Island.

Yep, that was him. Henry was kind of a big guy who was pleasant and had nice stuff.

Thanks for remembering Tom.

[Researcher]

My first trip to the Syracuse show was to meet up with Al Atterbury who had written an article on Frank Hollenbeck in the Gun Report, when I was doing my Baltimore Arms Co. articles for The Double Gun Journal. Paid waaaayyyy too much for the first A.H. Fox Gun Co. fishing reel I ever saw at that show!!

[Bill Murphy]

The reels certainly came out of the woodwork after a period of being invisible. Like Parker vises and coffee grinders, it was Ebay that outed them.

[Bill Murphy]

Bill Z., I sent you a PM today.

[Bill Zachow]

Bill, did you get the catalog and were you happy with it.

[Dean Romig]

I thiught you had originally asked Bill Zachow…





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