Acceptable Auction

[Bill Murphy]

Our Reseach Committee Chairman and I met at a Pennsylvania gun auction today and had a very nice visit. Some very nice guns were sold and our hero actually ended up taking one outrageous Parker home with him. Some nice double guns were sold as well as other guns that were not double guns. Congratulations to Chuck for picking up a real plum.

[scott kittredge]

Congratulations to Chuck for picking up a real plum.
O do tell
:corn:

[Angel Cruz]

I love plums!!!

[Chuck Bishop]

Redding Auctions in Gettysburg had a few Parkers. VHE 20ga had a few issues but sold for $2900, DHE 20ga sold for $9000 to a forum associate, SC SBT sold for $1650 (good gun), Fox CE 12 sold for $2800, and a VH restored 0 frame 16ga sold for $1300. I bought this gun and had to pinch myself to see if I was dreaming! Pictures attached.

[Brian Dudley]

Good looking gun at a good price.

[charlie cleveland]

very nice gun..or should i say plum anyway a nice piece at a cheap price...charlie

[Scott Janowski]

Very nice!

[Mike Franzen]

Amazing!!

[Dean Romig]

Looks like an Oscar Gaddy restoration... do you know who did the case colors?

[Chuck Bishop]

Dean,

I don't know who did the recase, all I know is that it's one of the nicest recolor jobs that I've seen. I usually don't like most of the recolors, there is too much straw and the patterns are blotshie (is that a word?) The watertable color pattern is the way original Parker colors looked. I was thinking maybe Turnbull? Do you have examples of Gaddy's casecolors?

[Craig Larter]

Chuck: Very nice gun, if you call Turnbull's and give them the serial number they will look it up to see if they did any work on the gun. The colors look Turnbull to me. Craig

[Dean Romig]

Now that you and Craig mention it, the colors could very well be Turnbull's. Maybe just a bit more vivid than Gaddy's, that I have seen anyway.

[edgarspencer]

Nice gun, Chuck. You ought to consider getting a letter on it.

[Fred Preston]

Here's my Gaddy Gun; a GH 12, 1 frame, open right, tighter left.

[Chuck Bishop]

I contacted Turnbull and they did the recase on the receiver and other metal parts and also did the barrel reblue. That's all they did. The bad news is that upon close inspection the stock is cracked through the pistol grip. It's off to Craig Libhardt for repair.

[Thomas L. Benson Sr.]

Edgar: You kill me!:rotf: