Parker small catalog with Revised price list dated November 18, 1916 attached to cove
 

What is the value of the above Parker catalog. The catalog is the small size(approx 3 by 5). Titled The Parker Gun. Got it at the auction back in the 80s when I won my first Parker, a beautiful DH. It is, nota clown but the same vintage. Would like to sell it as I have been divesting many guns. My son in law, Dannyis the proud o,wner of the DH and my like new Trojan. I cannot rember what, if anything, I paid for it. Thanks in advance, Bill Zachow

Bill, "pocket catalogs" are very desirable. Sounds like a 1913 print year. If its in good condition you should expect $100-$150. If you need more help let me know. I do not collect catalogs, but have helped out buying/selling over 20.

Be well, Dean Hanson

608-577-6816..... feel free to text me pictures. Can probably nail down exact year.

Hello Bill - It’s really good to see you posting again. Are you still up in New York?
Hoping you and Sylvia are well.

Best, Dean







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Thanks guys. Yep, still here on the farm. Both of us are mentally good but kind of warn out in the bodies. My son, Shannon lives with us, and does all the heavy lifting. About allI can do is drive tractors to mow lawn and fields. Thanks again

Bill, I sent a PM and would appreciate a reply. Thanks.

Hey Bill:

Do you remember 18 years ago this past April on Saturday morning at the Syracuse Gun Show I bought this sweet Winchester early Model 1906 pump .22 from you pictured below?

I still have it. Many thanks.

Bill Jolliff

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I would like to buy the catalog. Thanks.

Bill, thanks for selling me the catalog. I sent a PM with my address. Payment is on the way.

Bill Joliff, I can not remember that 06 or its sale to you. I do have a very nice 06 that I got from an undertaker friend������. Currently I am more into Winchester 22s than Parkers. Have sold off a number of my Parkers. My son in law, Danny, will probably get whats left when I go to the big gun show in the sky. I have not gone to the Syracuse gun show in a few years because its 95% junk and black guns. The Syracuse and Albany shows I remember best were the one where I bought a 95% condition 1909 hammerless 8 gauge with 36” barrels (Albany) and Syracuse where I picked up a 34” hammer 8. Todays shows do not have stuff like that. Bill Murphy, the catalog goes out as soon as I get your missive. Thanks,, guys

I sold about half of the 50 or so Winchester .22's I had. I had 3 Model 1906's but I kept the one I got from you and sold a 90% 1906 and a 50% Expert model.
And you're right about the Syracuse and Albany gun shows, others too, sure not what they used to be.

I’d loved to have seen both of them ! Had a pair of 36” hammer 8’s and a pair of 34” hammerless 8’s . Your 34” hammer gun might just have matched up well with the DH 34” I have at the present .

Like most of the longtime gun shows, the Syracuse and Albany shows have gone the way of the MREs. black gun accessories, and flavored venison jerky assortments. Never bought a gun at Syracuse, but scored the very best 32" Browning Superposed Grade 3 ("Fighting Cocks") trap with the narrow rib, long tang and round knob grip I'd ever seen from the Hartman Bros. (Elmira Arms) at a fall Albany show one year.

Price was obscenely cheap; "No one wants those old long-barreled Browning traps unless they're a Broadway rib!" I stopped at the show on a whim while on the way to visit with PGCA Historian and TPS co-author Roy Gunther, then living in Averill Park, just east of Albany, to research the Sunderland gun, which I subsequently wrote an article on for the Double Gun Journal ("The Graduation Gun"). Weather was perfect for travel and shunpike diversions; the show and my visit with CDR Gunther made for a near-perfect road trip.

My first trip to the Syracuse show was to meet up with Al Atterbury who had written an article on Frank Hollenbeck in the Gun Report, when I was doing my Baltimore Arms Co. articles for The Double Gun Journal. Paid waaaayyyy too much for the first A.H. Fox Gun Co. fishing reel I ever saw at that show!!

The reels certainly came out of the woodwork after a period of being invisible. Like Parker vises and coffee grinders, it was Ebay that outed them.

Bill Z., I sent you a PM today.

Bill, did you get the catalog and were you happy with it.

I well remember that hammerless 8 gauge. It was a Grade 1 if I remember and we did an article in Parker Pages that had pictures of that magnificent Parker.





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Bill, I have not gotten it yet. I'll be looking for it and will comment on here. When did you mail it? Thanks, Murphy

Bill, I got the booklet and it is great. It is similar to another 1913 booklet in my collection but with different colors and a bit different pricing. Thank you so much.

Glad you like it Bill. I have some other Parker paper and odd ball items that I plan to put up for sale here. Nothing fantastic, just interesting

I'll be waiting to see what you offer.

Once in a while you could catch one on the Hartman boys, but not often.
They were very shrewd traders.

At the Syracuse, Albany and Rochester shows, you also would likely see Jim Austin (Kittery Point), Pete Harvey, Randy Shuman and Hershel Chaddick. And that big, tall Jewish guy from Long Island who usually had nice stuff on his table (I can't remember his name).

Those were the days. New York state politicians have pretty much doomed anything like that anymore.

Hi Bill,

His name was Henry Christman, and he found me some truly outstanding doubles in NYC and out on Long Island.

Yep, that was him. Henry was kind of a big guy who was pleasant and had nice stuff.

Thanks for remembering Tom.

What Pete Harvey didn't know about Colts, Herb Glass did.

Bill Zachow, tell us about the remaining Parker items you wish to sell.