ED ROSE sporting goods.
 

I have a customers Parker in the shop that has a Pachmyr white line pad on it with ED ROSE sporting goods on the back of it. Much like how Delgrego had their name on pads.
Has anyone ever heard of ED ROSE? Where they may have been located and when?

Could it be Red Rose?

No, it's deffinately ED.

About a year ago I bought a SC trap gun that had been nicely converted from original straight grip to full pistol grip and it had a white line pad with the ED ROSE Sporting Goods lettering. The auction was in the Northwestern corner of PA., near the New York line. I have never been able to find any info on Ed Rose. If he did the rework and recheckering on my SC, he was a top shelf craftsman. Fred

Well this pad is less than expertly installed. And the gun has been in the NY (Buffalo) area for a very long time. So it must have been a shop somewhere around western NY/PA.

Ed Rose Sporting goods
 

Mr.Dudley, Ed Rose was indeed a sporting goods store in Buffalo, N.Y. ....I believe if memory serves, it was on Genesee Street near Main St. downtown. I have seen Ed Rose labels on baseball uniforms from the 30's - 50's. That is the extant of my knowledge. I believe I have an ad somewhere in a publication....I assume you have googled it?....

I did do a quick google search and could not really turn up much. I was kind of more looking to confirm location and when they were around. The owner of his gun got it in the 50s I believe and be said that the way it is is the way he got it from his father. So the pad would predate his time of ownership.

Thanks Smoke

I spoke to my father tonight, who spent the first 45 years of his life in Buffalo. If he were a Parker shotgun, his serial number would be around 220XXX.

I asked him if he ever heard of Ed Rose Sporting Goods and without any hesitation he said, "Oh sure, they were over on Main Street. I bought that .222 I have there."

It's hard for most people to fathom, but at one time Buffalo was one of the strongest cities in the US....

Thanks for asking him about it Greg.