DH Parker Letter
 

First off thanks to Mr Bishop for your Quick responce to my letter request. I was surprised to see that it came from the factory with a case. I don't imagine that the case was marked for the gun or was it? I wonder where it is now. Thanks Thomas

That is a pretty gun Tom. The Raymond family was well known in the area. I believe they owned several car dealerships. Imagine getting a 25% discount for cash today!

Wonderful gun Mr. Geezer! Thank you for being the first to post a copy of our new researcher Mr. Bishop's PGCA letter.

Boy that is one beautiful looking DH, I am searching for a similar example. Thanks for posting the letter and pictures. Craig

That's a great looking DH Thomas

And Chuck, a very nice job on the letter.

Edgar: I don't suppose we could get a 25% discount at the car dealership today. Edgar do know if a person could trace a gun case to a certain ser. no. Parker or were they just made and no way of associating the two. Thanks Thomas

Thomas, lovely, just lovely. After all the beat up, chopped, abused, used and misused, unloved and folk arted, now we see a fine Parker to be proud of. And damascus to boot.

I like them the standard way Parker made them and Parker did it right. This gun is right.

Congratulations.

PS, I have a little D 20 with a stock that looks like it could have been taken from the same tree.

Bruce: very nice,I wish mine was a 20 Ga. Thomas

I screwed up
 

Thomas,

I made a mistake on your letter. Larry Frey sent me a PM asking if the town was Plainville Ct not Plainsville Ct as I had it in your letter. I went and checked the order book and I guess it's Plainville since Larry never heard of Plainsville. Anyway, I got to looking at the name of the guy ordering the gun and I got to thinking it may not be Raymond.

Each order book has an index at the front where each entity ordering a gun is listed alphabetically. I didn't find the name under the R's. You have to understand the stylistic handwriting used in those days and the fact that they used a broad tipped fountain pen. I looked under the S's and there it was. Also, I found three different style of capitol S's so there were 3 different people entering data. I'm pretty sure the correct name is E.L. Seymour of Plainville, Ct.

I'm sending you a corrected letter. Everything else is accurate,


I'm apologizing right now for my current and future screw up's, I'm sure there will be more in the future.

Chuck

It's nice to know that you are following up on this. We all appreciate it. Dave