I'm not going to correct my error, because then NO one will know what George is talking about. Plus, it's just more proof he's stalking me.
Actually, re-reading it, that was a pretty good, albeit accidental, pun. I still think twin BEADS is a pretty esoteric theme.

why not select a couple of high grades and ask for representative gagues in each grade for your display.

AH (all gagues)
BH (all gagues)
or other select grades and all gagues (eg; AH 12,16,20,28,410) in that grade of Parker

I wonder who might have a .410 AH or AHE :whistle:

Dean, perhaps it would not be likely to find an AH 410 ga. gun for display. You could say the PGCA wants to display a selection of all gagues in grade CH and DH or whatever Parker grades the Committee would likely to be able to find a representative sample gague gun in those grades you wish to display. It would be wonderful to see a sample of all ga.'s in a particular grade (s). Has this been done before? Just a suggestion.

I know we have members who's collections are made up of just such Grade representations.


Maybe Parker No. 241576 will come out of hiding for this event... and, being a skeet gun it might even have twin ivories :whistle:

So what is the display....? I think 28 ga's would be nice or if you want skeet guns or do C's or whatever, but twin bead guns....no:nono:

Dean brought up a good point. Where is .410 AHE Skeet #241,576? I haven't seen it since it sold. Dean and I are lucky to share some pictures. Gary Carmichael for several years displayed his vertical collection of P Grades. It is the only one of this type I had seen. I hope this collection is still in one piece today, but I doubt it. If it is, I would be glad to add my marked P Grade lifter to the display. I doubt that even our hero, Gary, had one of those.

I'd also be happy to add my P 20- the last one to leave Meriden.

I think a good display would be the "un-ducumented Parkers", the missing link so to speak.

An excellent idea from Elliot Island!