I’d loved to have seen both of them ! Had a pair of 36” hammer 8’s and a pair of 34” hammerless 8’s . Your 34” hammer gun might just have matched up well with the DH 34” I have at the present .

Like most of the longtime gun shows, the Syracuse and Albany shows have gone the way of the MREs. black gun accessories, and flavored venison jerky assortments. Never bought a gun at Syracuse, but scored the very best 32" Browning Superposed Grade 3 ("Fighting Cocks") trap with the narrow rib, long tang and round knob grip I'd ever seen from the Hartman Bros. (Elmira Arms) at a fall Albany show one year.

Price was obscenely cheap; "No one wants those old long-barreled Browning traps unless they're a Broadway rib!" I stopped at the show on a whim while on the way to visit with PGCA Historian and TPS co-author Roy Gunther, then living in Averill Park, just east of Albany, to research the Sunderland gun, which I subsequently wrote an article on for the Double Gun Journal ("The Graduation Gun"). Weather was perfect for travel and shunpike diversions; the show and my visit with CDR Gunther made for a near-perfect road trip.

My first trip to the Syracuse show was to meet up with Al Atterbury who had written an article on Frank Hollenbeck in the Gun Report, when I was doing my Baltimore Arms Co. articles for The Double Gun Journal. Paid waaaayyyy too much for the first A.H. Fox Gun Co. fishing reel I ever saw at that show!!

The reels certainly came out of the woodwork after a period of being invisible. Like Parker vises and coffee grinders, it was Ebay that outed them.

Bill Z., I sent you a PM today.

Bill, did you get the catalog and were you happy with it.

I well remember that hammerless 8 gauge. It was a Grade 1 if I remember and we did an article in Parker Pages that had pictures of that magnificent Parker.





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Bill, I have not gotten it yet. I'll be looking for it and will comment on here. When did you mail it? Thanks, Murphy

Bill, I got the booklet and it is great. It is similar to another 1913 booklet in my collection but with different colors and a bit different pricing. Thank you so much.

Glad you like it Bill. I have some other Parker paper and odd ball items that I plan to put up for sale here. Nothing fantastic, just interesting