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- - Allan Swanson (https://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40725)

Could someone please post his obituary, Please

George - There is no obituary on record to date.

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I have a Swanson shipping box in my collection. It once contained a very rare and very late #104,000 range #3 frame 32" 12 gauge lifter that was once Austin Hogan's "skeet gun" to hear Austin describe it. I chased that gun for years after seeing it in the hands of a famous Philadelphia collector, who most of us know, at a Pennsylvania Gun Collectors show at Monroeville. He offered it to me at a low price but I had no idea how rare it was at the time. I left without buying it. We were lunching at the snack bar at the time. Somehow it got to Austin who appreciated it as a "skeet gun" and refused to sell it to me at any price. As Austin would say, "We don't live forever." It was another of those thirty year searches. It is one gun that may be one of the last to go.

I have one too, problem was he used about 20 screws to secure the lid:banghead:

Yup that was Austin's Skeet gun for sure.

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Originally Posted by Chuck Bishop (Post 401440)

I have one too, problem was he used about 20 screws to secure the lid:banghead:

That's all, just 20??

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Originally Posted by Dean Romig (Post 401364)

I got a call one day and it happened to be on a Sunday during the Baltimore show and it was Allan. He asked me what I thought a particular CH with Bernard barrels was worth and he continued to describe the gun to the letter. I told him that I thought such a gun was worth around $8,000 or so. He said he had told the seller to take the gun off the table as he thouhjt he had a buyer for a lot more than the $3,000m he was asking...

The seller was NRA's Jim Baker and I bought the gun for the $8,000 I had said I thought it was worth. Allan told me he thought I made a good buy and he was right. When I sold it years later I didn't lose a penny!!!

Allan was a friend of Jim's and a friend of mine and he didn't want to see either of us get hurt by making a bad deal.

Thanks Allan!!

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Dean, that’s the gun I posted on the thread about original condition Parkers. I thought you might recognize it. I’m glad to think there might be a connection to this fine gentleman. What a testament this thread has become. I’m glad I was able to speak with him at our last met. What a wonderful organization this is with folks like him.

Very sad news. He was always kind to Julia and me.

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Originally Posted by Chuck Bishop (Post 401440)

I have one too, problem was he used about 20 screws to secure the lid:banghead:

Chuck a couple of months ago I acquired a Parker from a member who sent it to me in one Allans shipping boxes which I returned to the Seller. It seemed like a great idea to me so one rainy night a few weeks back I went to the shop, well you get the picture :)

I will miss the stories that Allan would tell of days gone by and chasing Parkers at various shows. RIP Allan.

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Originally Posted by Randy G Roberts (Post 401483)

To a degree you remind me a lot of my dearly departed father RIP . He was very much into woodworking although more towards 18th century furniture that type thing . Pop wasn’t much on metal work however and that’s more my type thing . But the items I see coming from your shop remind me of him !