Parker Repro Rights

[allen newell]

Q. Who owns the rights to Parker Reproduction? The Skeuse family? CSMC?

[Dean Romig]

I don’t remember CSMC ever having anything to do with Parker Reproduction production or re-production.





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[allen newell]

Dean, my guess would be that the Skeuse family retains the rights. A friend asked me if I knew and I dont. Just my best guess

[Dean Romig]

You should shoot a PM to Richard Skeuse.





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[Bill Murphy]

Dean, Tony's $50,000 28 gauge is, in so many words, a Parker Repro. It's been a while since I read about it. What's the deal?

[Dean Romig]

Bill, CSMC’s $50k AAHE 28 was manufactured under Remington’s license, not the Skeuse/Winchester license.





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[John Dallas]

How many Parkers did Remington produce when they tried to produce them in the 1970's? Did they actually do them or were they farmed out to someone like DelGrego? The sales brochure I have quotes a price of something like $12,000

[Dean Romig]

John, just a handful were made. Probably a half-dozen or so, unless I miss my guess. Remington presented a few to retiring executives. Art Wheaton donated his to the NRA Museum and it and another are on display in the Robert Peterson collection room.





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[John Dallas]

Dean - Thanks. Any guess on who actually made them?

[Dean Romig]

I'm quite sure Remington made them. From what I've seen they had the same forend release that the prototype Trojan Skeet guns had, in other words, like the Remington 32.





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[Brian Dudley]

1970s? I think that may be referring to when Remington finished some guns up here and there from parts inventory for internal presentations to employees. The production and public offering was later on. It was 1988 that they were cataloged by Remington. And to my understanding the guns pictured in the catalog were not actually new guns, but just original guns that were refinished to look like new by the custom shop. And weren't the frames and various parts for the proposed production made for Remington by Kolar? It had to have been the popularity of the Parker Reproductions that got Remington considering offering Parkers to the public again.

As to the modern Parkers put together by CSMC, it is my understanding that about a dozen were made and only half of those were actually sold.

[John Dallas]

I will be away from my meager catalog stuff for several months, but I think the paper I have would have been from before DuPont sold its 51% interest in Remington