I just read this whole thread from Jays initial post till now.If you read it in it's entirety it's really pretty funny.....:biglaugh:

OK,I tried...I will leave this up to more capable hands.I'm gonna go shoot a Parker or two.And maybe even my straight stocked Mod 12 at some of those skeet birds in honor of Francis.:rolleyes:

You have to be quick to bid on those pitchers if you don't keep a daily hook out for them on ebay. I missed one advertised by a lady whose house I can see from the upstairs windows of my house. Didn't see the ad until a couple of hours after it sold, maybe to Chris. I think it would be neat to be able to track a pitcher to the shooter who won it, but I've not been able to do that. Francis, I guess you are here for the duration. As always, congratulations, and my offer of an invitation to attend the Smith shoot still stands.

A bit of eye candy for this thread. Enjoy!

Very nice Tom, thanks for sharing the early Parker and Hunter Arms trophies...

Just curious, what are the height/width dimensions on the Parker trophy, and is there anything engraved on the backside of the Hunter Arms Bolo identifying the winner or year presented?...

Best, CSL
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Bill,
What did us Elsie guys do to you to deserve that "gracious" invitation to RWTF ? Your free beer at the Southern has been rescinded, but Linda is always welcome !

I've heard of an early shooting trophy that has Parker lifter guns as legs on the silver cup but never actually seen the item. Anybody else ever heard rumor of that one?

DLH

Shooting was a much more accepted sport in all its forms 90-120 years ago and I just think that with all the competition to sell trap guns that Parker would have not let Smith be the only one with something nice to put on the mantle,something the distaff side would approve of .I collect loving cups and have found a lot of them gathering dust in attics and think that if guns were just tools and a means to an end that there would be no reason to attach much importance to a trophy after the recipient had passed or lost interest.Have found tennis,golf,car racing,horse racing and even cock fighting trophies scrounging around.Some really nice and some made by an outfit in Meriden.

Robert,Those made in Meriden could have been Britannia or International Silver among others. Meriden was known as "The Silver City" because of its many manufactories for the silver industry.

Dave,
Wallace Silver was another large manufacturer of all things silver in the Meriden/Wallingford area.

Dick, my exact words were "I'll get you a sponsor if you're not a memeber." I did not imply that I would be that "sponsor". My offer still stands, though.

Thanks Larry,I know there are a few others besides the one's we mentioned but it was the best I could do off the top of my head....:rolleyes:

There was a supposedly real Parker Brothers trophy banging around the Allentown PA show for a few years. I was never able to get up enough nerve to pronounce it original. Maybe Tom Kidd or Kevin McCormack will remember it. I haven't seen it in five or six years at least.

Check out the in store specials not the auction. There is a "Grey Squirrels" poster for 11 grand. Just a little over my budget but cool none the less. Jack

http://www.gunrunnerauctions.com/index.cfm

Tom,

Does the du Bray trophy have any hallmarks? I took my fathers cavalry trophy to a silversmith to have a handle repaired and was informed that the trophy was made of lead! It looked silver to me and I grew up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

Harry

$2200 and L.C. Smiths
 

[QUOTE=Jay Gardner;14279]Perhaps one could argue that spending $2.200 on an LC Smith faub is pizzing away money?:rolleyes:

Thanks Jay. I treasure the tools and skills I inherited from my Granddad as much or more than his guns. The most amount I have spent on a doublegun to date was that exact amount- a 12 Pigeon gun- a 2E DT rebarreled at Fulton in 1927 with 32" Nitro Ventilated Rib barrels- Full in both, 3" chambers and 8 lbs. even. I kill way more birds with it than any watch fob!!:bigbye:

Francis I believe the only thing you're lacking is a FOX! I wish you could be at the SOUTHERN. I'd like to meet you in person.

Best Regards As Always, George

[quote=George Lander;15360]Francis I believe the only thing you're lacking is a FOX! I wish you could be at the SOUTHERN. I'd like to meet you in person.

Best Regards As Always, George[

The pleasure would be mine as well, Suh! My TDY at Camp Lejeune in the 1960's made me appreciate Southern good manners.

I bought a HE 12 some 20 years ago from a Pawn Shop. Would NOT do that again today, as the serial numbers were filed down.

Francis: I too was surprised at the final price for BW. I guess that it is a "sign of the times". I had some great times fighting with Marines at Charagamus in Old San Juan and at Roosevelt Roads, both in PR. My HE has the "BARRELS NOT GUARANTEED SEE" erased. Only the word "TAG" remains, but the SN is intact. I, too, hope that whoever bought BW will take it back to the blind at Nash's club in Arkansas and let go a few before it is parked forever in a museum.

Best Regards, George

Be hard to do any gunning at his club in Arkansas, it's a Wildlife Refuge now and has been for many years.

DLH

Free beer for Mr. Murphy-
 

[quote=Dick Miller;14509]Bill,
What did us Elsie guys do to you to deserve that "gracious" invitation to RWTF ? Your free beer at the Southern has been rescinded, but Linda is always welcome !

Dick, I won't be at the Southern, so "no harm-no foul".

We'll see where this goes :eek:
http://cgi.ebay.com/L-C-Smith-Hunter...item230639871c

The L.C. Smith trophy was given to State Championship Winners, and the earliest reference I've found was 1896. There had to have been 100s awarded.

Wow! I can't wait to see how that one plays out.

DLH

Yeah, Bill: I remember it well. It had a faux bronze base marked "Parker Bros. Meriden Ct.' with two pillars in the center of which was the statue of a shooter with a Parker like gun to his shoulder. The top piece was a faux bronze bridge with two finials that looked like miniature pineapples.

It was offered by none other than the venerable "Dr." Gerald Bullock of Greene, NY, a picturesque little village hard by the kennels from whence came my great old English Setter "Smoke", world's greatest grouse dog.

After we put the trophy "under the glass" at that show, it went undergound so to speak, and I (we) never saw it again. My guess is that it was a "project" piece, probably unbeknownst to the good Dr. Bullock. As I recall he provenanced it as having been aquired with "a bunch of other Parker 'stuff'. Over the years I had bought a few good shooting trophies from him; my best score being a 1912 Labor Day traphooting cup trophy from Millbrook NY, home of the Vintagers before it moved into our back yard at Pintail Point on the Eastern Shore of MD

I still lust after a vintage Philadelphia Gun Club trophy cup, after being aced out of a c. 1919 sample offered by our "Annie Oakley" buddy at the Old Baltimore Show years ago, after he got cold feet when I offered him his advertised price in full, saying he "needed to reseach it a little more", thinking he was "selling it too cheap", when someone was willing to pay full price. I'm sure that's what dealer's purgatory is for, the more I think about it!

The L.C. Smith Trophy went for $810.

Less than I'd have thought.

DLH