Found a nice article.

Great article. Again, congratulations and good luck on further research.

Dane, I guess I was lucky when I suggested that Mr. Stair might have worked for Peters. Can you access the continuation of the article for us? Where did you find that?

Bill, google has a "book" category to search under. I searched his name and found many E-books that were free to download as a pdf. This article was found from a Fins, feather and fur book which is about 650 pages. The "book" is just magazines compiled together.

Here is the rest of the article....

Thanks.

Mr. Stair's shooting averages came from Interstate Association and American Trapshooting average books for 1913 and forward to 1922. His death was in June of 1924 and he apparently did not shoot in competition in 1923. The la84foundation.com search function has dozens and dozens of "stair" references when you select "Sporting Life" as the search publication. Finding the original owner of a gun through initials engraved on the gun is not an easy process, but it can be done if you have a few clues and are diligent. I have found a few, but this was the easiest. Your next step is to research Mr. Stair's street address and post some pictures of his home. In later years, he moved to Minneapolis, according to the ATA books.

Bill, today I brought it to my local hunt club and it was pretty exciting to tell all the "older" local shooters about what we discovered about the gun. A lot of them remembered the hardware store it was ordered from and one used to work there. One older gentleman that does wood work and engraves, and also has a few Parker's thought it was worth around $2,000. I know you haven't seen the gun personally but what is your opinion?

*Given the history and rare options

Provenanced competition guns are in my collector interest, so it is worth more to me. I will let others give their opinions of the value of a Damascus DH with special features.

Bill,

Check this out. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/se...sort=relevance

Just took some better pictures of the gun. Album is here http://parkerguns.org/forums/album.php?albumid=435