Hi CSL,

As always - your pics are wonderful..! I mean that.. Whenever you post them - it takes as all back to another time and place.. I wish I could help you with some information from "back then" - but, unfortunately - I'll have to wait for yet the "next generation" to post pictures from the '60s and '70s.. Your picture is from an era I can only imagine..

Again - thanks for sharing!

John

White Line was it's own brand of recoil pads before it was bought by Pachmyer so it could be earlier.

If Iver Johnson sold some high end sporting goods that's all well and good but about 99% of the "saturday night special" revolvers and a good portion of the cheap single shots here in the US are under their brand so saying they were a mostly low end gun company is correct. I've got a postcard around somewhere that shows their store, I'll have to dig it out.


Destry
Destry

Soda sign, two pipe displays, large, medium and small arrays of tins of pipe tobacco, $.13 for small tin, Kodak sign, a sign for 24 hour film developing and printing, "Skeet shooting exhibit" notation on back of image, odd mix of gun mfg - yes, looks like maybe a drug store exhibit, but more likely a male oriented newspaper, magazine, tobacco and sundries store, less likely a gun shop, IMHO.

Pictures like that makes me think, man I was born 75 to 100 yrs to late.
Very nice pic Chris. Thanks for sharring.

Chris,Good to hear from ya and thanks for the picture :)

White Line Pads
 

The White Line pad was originated by Mershon sometime before WW II. Pachmayer acquired the pattern (or company) after WW II. It was rare to see a good gun without a Mershon in the 1950's and 1960's. Look back on the Parker Pages article on the Invincibles, and you will see 200,000 wearing one.

Best, Austin

Great comments by all, glad you fellas enjoyed the old photo... Good to see and hear from all the usual suspects, it's been a hot summer here the Pacific Northwest...

John Dunkle,
Thanks for the note, always good to see you here... I'm still keeping an eye out for items related to your Grand-Dad G.L.O.

Dean,
Thanks for the information, I'll follow up on the Eaton drug store tip... The 28ga "Woodcock-gun" you mentioned looks like it may be a G? grade Skeet gun. Here's a close-up view of the side and cheeks, hard to tell if they are checkered, but that sure looks like a nice piece of wood for the stock...

Best, Chris
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http://www.webpak.net/~dslcslien/1Eaton's28PB.jpg.
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Now that we can see the stock more closely Chris, it looks to possibly be a restock as the checkering pattern is not like the G grade checkering we are accustomed to. The one shown has a great deal more coverage than a G would have and toward the head of the stock there are only two points where a G and a D would have three points and C and above are different entirely. Grade 0 and 1 have two point checkering patterns but are not nearly as elaborate in coverage as the one shown.

Thanks for the close-up Chris.

Regards, Dean

Checking
 

It is my experience that BTFE checking is not grade dependent. I have VH's with sophisticated checking , a DH with the same pattern as an AH, a DH that looks like a VH, and a CSB and BSB with the same pattern.

Best, Austin

I'm in agreement with you Austin as regards the forend checkering - it is the checkering on the grip of the stock at the area closest to the head of the stock that I have referenced.

Best, Dean