Ok, letter says original owner was Hugh Mallet of Bradford, I'll. Confirms D4 with 32" barrels with Silvers pad and Lyman sights. Later return for restock by Allen Hol. Letter doesn't mention pad for restock.

Can anyone help me with following questions:

Were Mallet or Hol known trap shooters?

Would the factory have installed a Redhead pad during restock in 1915?

Thx, Ray

Far as I ever knew, Redheads were never factory with Parker guns. Just have a Silvers put back on it, the new ones are exactly like the old ones.

Destry

Red Head pads were factory equipment on some Montgomery Ward marketed Stevens doubles. I was so close to ripping the Red Head pad from my minty little Ward's .410 until I saw the pad listed as standard equipment in a Ward's catalog. Whew, that was close. I bought that great little gun from a retail store that is the closest gun store to my house.

Ray, Hugh Mallett shot a little around the time the gun was made, but only a couple of hundred Interstate birds a year. What is the location of Mr. Hol who had the gun restocked? He was not an Illinois shooter. If the researcher left that information out of the letter, maybe you could give him a call. By the way, if I owned the CHE, I would have my first consecutive numbered pair in fifty years of collecting Parkers. I own a great little 28" GHE, #159,916 that was factory restocked in English Walnut with skeleton butt. It is only the second G Grade with skeleton butt I have seen. Let us know how you like the CHE. I will take it if you don't like it.

You mean there are somebody else besides me and Scott K. doing that? :rotf:

Bill

Allen Hol was from Castleton, I'll according to the letter.

Best, Ray

Bill I have a GHE 16 0 frame with a skelton butt.

I would get one of the best wood restorers fix the pinned area and recut the checkering, put a Silvers pad on it and be good to go to the Vintager's with the best of the others. On Pineland Plantation near Albany Ga., I saw Mr. Peter Burrell, with his straight stocked Purdy 20 with a broken wrist held together with Duct tape just keep on shooting till the end of Quail season. The next year he was shooting the same gun repaired and you could not tell it had been broken.

PDD

Many have suggested here and in PMs that the stock should be repaired at the pin and then recheckered. I wonder that advantage? The repair is sound and I'd have no problem shooting it just the way it is. I've always liked the "survivor" look and thought a new looking stock on an old gun looked funny. My fear is that once I got started I'd end up restoring the whole gun.
I'm not going to keep this gun but I ask these questions here because I have an AH in similar condition I've thought about restoring. The only difference is that the AH doesn't have a broken stock. Otherwise, it has the same wear with no CCH left, damascus barrels worn, etc. Is it really worth spending all that cash to restore?

Best, Ray

No, it would ruin it.