Abercrombie & Finch Shipped Guns
 

Is it common to have a Parker that letters as shipped to A & F? And if it is common was it normally a higher grade gun or were all grades sold by A & F?

Thanks in advance for your input.

Quite common. I have had several A&F guns, and Bob Beach does a great letter on each they sold. Such letters almost always include the purchesor's name. My ghe28 was bought by a NY banker who went in with his boss, at lunchtime. His boss, E.F. Hutton, also bought a GHE.

Mine isn't in the G&H data, but it letters as shipped to A&F. Thanks for the response.

Now that seems interesting....

I would still ask Bob Beach on that one. The G&H database is not perfect.

I will contact him. Gun was ordered on 1/14/16 and shipped 6/1/16. Five months to deliver the product. Very interesting.

Reggie, go through the list of SNs right to the end. There are a lot of numbers which don’t show up in sequence, but are appended at the end of the list. As far as I recall hearing it explained, even unsold guns which were returned, still show up in the numerical list because they were recorded when received.

There are two lists, one new and one used.

Edgar is correct as usual. And so is Mr. Murphy.
However I do recall there is a paucity of records prior to 1926.

Don't just do the search for your particular number. That is not a perfect system. Bring up the "all numbers" list and try to find your number in the list. What is your number, by the way?