Juan H. Kipp Importador de Escopetas Parker

[Drew Hause]

Stumbled upon this interesting Parker envelope

http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL1373/6511424/20080158/413989481.jpg

Juan H. Kipp was registered as an importer of "Machinery and Agricultural Implements" in 1891
https://archive.org/stream/bulletin07repugoog#page/n289

A needlessly condescending English gun dealer once referred to Smith guns as "farm implements". I've never seen the term "agricultural implements" applied to Parkers ;)
See The L.C. Smith "Farm Implement Grades", Double Gun Journal, 2014, page 113.

[Drew Hause]

John Harvy Kipp. Originally DeKype from Amsterdam, then France. Came to New York in mid 1800's . Moved to Guadalajara, Mexico. Built home, Clover Lawn, in 1890.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/historiagdl/photos/?tab=album&album_id=564161303626321
https://www.facebook.com/historiagdl/photos/a.564161303626321/564188980290220/?type=3&theater

Passed while in Mexico. Son was forced to move to America in 1933-34, due to Mexico's Nationalism.

1905
https://books.google.com/books?id=CCdOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA593&lpg

1913 "the largest store in Guadalajara in the State of Jalisco"
https://books.google.com/books?id=npFFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA530&lpg