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Dean Romig 09-22-2015 07:13 PM

"Uncle Crawford's Twenty"
 
Received my online Sporting Classics Daily today and this nice story was featured. It is very well written.
I see the author G. Duncan Grant Jr. is not a PGCA member but he got his facts straight in recounting the Parker Bros. history.

http://sportingclassicsdaily.com/iss...awfords-twenty








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Charles Matthews 09-22-2015 07:33 PM

Dean,
You were right. Very nice article. By the way, Duncan is the co-founder and publisher of Sporting Classics magazine. He is a great guy also.

Regards,
Charles Matthews

greg conomos 09-22-2015 07:55 PM

Small point, but I don't think any Parkers in 1918 sold for more than $1000. In fact I don't think any sold for more than $1000 ever...?

Dean Romig 09-22-2015 08:10 PM

Agreed.

George M. Purtill 09-23-2015 08:41 AM

Thanks for the reference Dean. I love articles with pictures of the old owners of the firearms. It brings the guns to life. If only they could talk........

charlie cleveland 09-23-2015 05:44 PM

i just read this i felt just like i was there...in some ways this story is really about all of us that were boys on hunts with dad or uncles or just friends...and that dog little bit could have been any of us s dogs in our youth..my dads dog a german shorthair female name was PENNY....she was the little bit in my youth...charlie

Bill Holcombe 09-23-2015 07:57 PM

The Invincible topped 1000 didn't it? Granted that was a decade later.

Bill Holcombe 09-23-2015 08:26 PM

Btw, thx for sharing. Awesome article.

Dean Romig 09-23-2015 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Holcombe (Post 177814)
The Invincible topped 1000 didn't it?


Anonymous handwritten memos in pencil ca. 1937 and 1940 suggest retail prices of $1300 and $1400 respectively. The note on the $1400 price also says "less 25% for jobber."

These prices are not in any catalog and these handwritten memos may be the only known prices for a Parker Invincible.





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Bill Holcombe 09-23-2015 09:22 PM

I thought TPS mentioned the price the Invincible was when it came out?

Dean Romig 09-23-2015 09:49 PM

Bill, what exactly does The Parker Story tell us about the prices of the Invincibles?
Sorry, my set is upstairs at the far end of the house - maybe yours is closer?




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Bill Holcombe 09-23-2015 09:54 PM

Mine is boxed up for moving. Maybe it doesnt. I know somewhere I read an article stating how an invincible cost more than a contemporary Purdy Best Grade at that time.

Bill Holcombe 09-24-2015 11:13 AM

Ahh found one of the articles I was looking for. Its in the NRA museum writeup on the invincibles, that the gun cost $1500 in 1930.

I will look for the other ones.

http://www.nramuseum.org/the-museum/...1-of-3%29.aspx

Dean Romig 09-24-2015 11:29 AM

Who was the author of that NRA Museum write-up Bill?
And I wonder what the source of his information was.




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Bill Holcombe 09-24-2015 11:40 AM

Got my TPS out of the box, and on page 380, figure 8.110 in Vol 1, is an advertisement announcing the invincible at a price of $1250.

Bill Holcombe 09-24-2015 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean Romig (Post 177876)
Who was the author of that NRA Museum write-up Bill?
And I wonder what the source of his information was.




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No idea, still trying to go through my information to find where I remember the comparison of the price of a Parker Invincible to all other American and even British gun makers of the time. Haven't found it yet.

I have a sneaking suspicion it might have been in Johnson's book, but I don't konw what box that is in currently.

Dean Romig 09-24-2015 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Holcombe (Post 177880)
Got my TPS out of the box, and on page 380, figure 8.110 in Vol 1, is an advertisement announcing the invincible at a price of $1250.


Excellent sleuth work Bill! Thank You!





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Bob Brown 09-24-2015 09:58 PM

In Baer's "An Immortal American Classic" he has a couple of pages (84+85) of price lists. The only one with the Invincible in it was 1930 and it was listed for $1500. The list skips to 1934 and the Invincible wasn't on it

Rich Anderson 09-25-2015 08:58 PM

I have read this article somewhere before. I don't get Sporting Classics but maybe I picked one up at one of the shoots.

It's a great story esp on the cusp of October.


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