"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?