Annie Oakley / Parker
 

Well, the PGCA made national news....at least a research letter did:


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...-auction?lite=

Interesting. I wonder if that is the highest price ever paid for a Damascus barreled shotgun?

thanks for the post

I do always get a kick out of Annie Oakley being referred to as an "old west" figure

she was from Ohio

I saw this on my MSN home page. Positive publicity for guns and Parker.

Certainly a case where provenance mattered, a lot!

Of course, her charm bracelet sold for almost as much! Go figure....

I believe this is the gun we had at an annual meeting one year.

Yup, we all saw it at dinner in Wilmington, Ohio. It was a very nice presentation. I missed it in the HA catalog.

Check this out. Photos of the real old west

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ered-time.html

This was the gun the family said would "never be sold". I always wondered when it would come to market. I've handled this gun at their home, Muderlak and I photographed it several years before his death.

Destry

Wonder if thats the gun she used to hunt with when she was young and feeding her family and market hunting?

well, she was born in 1860, so I am guessing no,

can't read the serial number in the image of the letter

since many folks here have seen it, i bet some one knows the vintage

"Will never be sold" and "$293,000" should never be used in the same sentence. They must be getting a little thin on pictures by now. This is about the fifth major auction with Annie Oakley photographs.

pictures are easier to come by than the shotguns


i remember reading that after his death, Jessie James' mother would go to local gunsmiths to get the unrepairable pistols and sell them to people at the farm as one of Jessie's.

As I recall, it was a mid-1880's gun but I don't remember the serial number.

I have another one of Annie's guns...least wise the guy I bought it from said hit was...

Probably would of been out of her price range. But mid 80's would make her 15ish bet she was hunting then??? Guess I should search the web instead of speculating.

She was shooting this gun very early in her show business career. The PGCA records confirm that is right. I don't know who it lettered to.

Another Annie Oakley gun just sold. It is more interesting than any of the others. It's a Model 1895 Winchester converted to .410 by Bland. It has hard core provenance, but I don't know how much it sold for.

30203 - G grade, top lever, 16 gauge, 30" Damascus steel barrels, pistol grip.

She must have been a huge collector, in addition to a good shooter.

Drove by the cemetery in which she is burried this evening on my way to my parents home in Indiana. She was born and raised in Darke Co, Ohio and is burried in the old Brock cemetery. Stopped by her grave last summer to pay my respects. She has a modest headstone in the small cemetery. I believe she died in Greenville, OH not far from where she was born. A very interesting figure, for sure.

The Butlers' home in Cambridge, MD is a historic site of some sort, but privately owned and not open to the public.

Annie's home is no longer standing. There is a marker on 127 northwest of Brock stating the her birthplace was "near here."'

if you missed the PBS special on her a couple years ago -

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...oakley/player/

they spend a lot of time on lead-in ads but hang in there, the story is interesting and you may catch a Parker in some of the photos shown

Thanks for the link Rick. I just sat and watched the whole thing. A very enlightening documentary of Annie Oakley with some wonderful pictures and motion pictures. She was really quite good looking too... what a lady!

Annie's Cambridge, MD home is alive and well.