Here's John Powers' winning entry... extremely high-original condition $200 Grade Parker. The voting was on the guns' own merits but John's provenance and memorabilia of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, for which this Parker was made, was extraordinary.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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