Current bid: $0 Will that change??

[Jack Cronkhite]

With a minimum bid of more than 10X my recent Trojan purchase, I might let this guy auction it off for me. Is this caveat emptor or am I missing something???

Have a look (http://www.icollector.com/Parker-16ga-Trojan-grade-double-barrel-shotgun-with-approx-28-barrels-fully-and-finely-restored-a_i8788407)

[Dean Romig]

To the uninitiated "caveat emptor" is certainly warranted and I don't think they'll get even one bid from anyone with even a modicum of Parker knowledge.
That grade of black walnut belongs on a G grade and the sculpting is not true to an original Trojan stock.

[Bill Murphy]

A few items previous to this one is a CHE with factory single trigger, ejectors, and skeleton butt for a starting bid of $1200.

[Dave Miles]

A few items previous to this one is a CHE with factory single trigger, ejectors, and skeleton butt for a starting bid of $1200.


Yes, with 13-1/4" LOP and about 4" DAH. :crying:

[Ed Blake]

Yes, with 13-1/4" LOP and about 4" DAH. :crying:

Ah, yes. That's the famous "Mickey Rooney" C-grade.

[Jay Gardner]

Everybody has a dream....

[Jack Cronkhite]

Ah, yes. That's the famous "Mickey Rooney" C-grade.

Ed: I need educating. Is your message tongue in cheek or is that part of the true provenance or..........???

Thanks,
Jack

[Ed Blake]

Ed: I need educating. Is your message tongue in cheek or is that part of the true provenance or..........???

Thanks,
Jack

:rolleyes:

[Jack Cronkhite]

Thanks Ed:)

I would be the guy coming up from behind to ask the question and getting the master's response :)

[Bruce Day]

Jack, you may not have been aware, but the munchkins from the Wizard of Oz had their own trap team and there is munchkin provenance for many of these short stocked, high drop guns. Serious munchkin collectors seek out these guns and pay astounding amounts.

[Eric Eis]

Thanks Ed:)

I would be the guy coming up from behind to ask the question and getting the master's response :)


Jack that is great....:)

[Jack Cronkhite]

Thanks Bruce. It will be interesting to watch this auction go over. It is live now. Its as if someone mixed up the Trojan CHE estimates and starting bids. At its start price, the Trojan must go up in 1K increments !! Besides possible provenance (Munchkins) how does this restoration look to your CHE eye? I think the colors seem almost translucent so pretty good work compared to so many other weird looking colors.
Cheers,
Jack

[Bruce Day]

Nice looking gun.

As for me, I'm off with a load of guns to see the wizard in Des Moines for Pheasant Fest. Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho.

[Bill Murphy]

Bruce, why not haul them to Littlejohn's and see if they bring the big buck?

[Francis Morin]

Did Mickey Rooney actually own a CHE Parker?? My favorite from his era is the great Humphrey DeForest Bogart--I have heard he owned a high grade 20bore LC Smith, and like to shoot skeet. Also very intelligent, a chess master who used to hustle that board game supreme while waiting for the infamous "Cattle Calls" before his career took off. He didn't have to fake the opening scene at the chess board in my all-time fav: Casablanca--:rolleyes:

[Bill Murphy]

Francis, I believe the Bogart Smith was on display at a shoot this summer.

[Jack Cronkhite]

CHE SOLD 2000
TROJAN SOLD 1400

(if I got it right, they roll over pretty fast)

I guess on-line bidders were the only ones who would have had to start at 6400 on the Trojan :)

[Mark Vollinger]

I took a trip down to Little John's to look at the Parkers. The CHE wasn't there at the time but with 26 1/4" barrels and a break in the wrist that needed re-doing it couldn't have been pretty.

The only gun that look interesting was a GHE 28 but also with a dent repaired or a very odd corrosion spot on the left barrel it wasn't that interesting.