"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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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

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...?

Agreed.

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........

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

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

Btw, thx for sharing. Awesome article.

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

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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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.

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

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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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.

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.

Excellent sleuth work Bill! Thank You!





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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

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.