Parker factory recoil pad

[Researcher]

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.

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 --

JOSTAM 1916 01.jpg

was in this 1916 post marked envelope --

JOSTAM 1916 02.jpg

[Drew Hause]

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

[Researcher]

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

1937 Jostam catalog.jpg