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I GOT IT ! Now I can Relax !

Fall 2018 Issue Parker mag

Dean a special thanks for allowing me to share my stories since I have started a new Era hunting with Parkers not to mention some of my family members who have the Fever!!! Best to you
Did the 2 Parkers talking make this issue??

Still waiting in Tennessee!

Quite a quandary Mills, read the new issue or inspect the two new guns?????

Lots of good stuff here. Enjoyed the article about the GH 16 restoration. About to start the one about serial number 79

got mine today and am sad to say i have read it from cover to cover already...lots of great stories and pictures....a job well done again dean and your other helpers...boy what a good front cover this issue has....charlie

My interlude reading our association's journal for the Winter 2018 quarter, cover-to-cover, was over only too quickly. Super stories, up-dates, announcements for Members and useful, practical product and service advertising.

Now Volume 25, Issue 4 reposes with other past editions for future reference.

Yes, Mills… E. W. Tinker’s Serial Number 79… In previous issues we have been treated to other Parkers that had unique, off-the-standard-pattern engraving images: The Cow Gun; The Chicken Thief Gun and now we have what is literally and figuratively The Kick-Ass Gun.

Any well-executed engraving on a gun is an enhancement, worthy of study and appreciation. But these rare, if outré, Parker dramatic depictions are especially engaging, coming as they appear to right out of the 19th Century American genre art tradition.

Many thanks to all the writers and to Dean for his continual, monthly editing of all the many elements in each issue.

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Originally Posted by Russell E. Cleary (Post 259312)

E. W. Tinker’s Serial Number 79… In previous issues we have been treated to other Parkers that had unique, off-the-standard-pattern engraving images: The Cow Gun; The Chicken Thief Gun and now we have what is literally and figuratively The Kick-Ass Gun.

Any well-executed engraving on a gun is an enhancement, worthy of study and appreciation. But these rare, if outré, Parker dramatic depictions are especially engaging, coming as they appear to right out of the 19th Century American genre art tradition.

The three guns that Russ references all seem to have a humorous theme and the engraving may well have been the work of Jacob Glahn, Parker Bros. first in-house engraving contractor. His engraving on a particular gun is described in The Parker Story as being "somewhat cartoonish" and likewise are the three guns mentioned above.
There are several other early Parkers with unusual engraving themes or scenes that may also be examples of Glahn's imagination and engraving expertise.

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