Dear Friends and Members of the Parker Gun Collector's Association
The 2010 PGCA Annual Meeting and Banquet will be held on September 24, 2010 and will include, among other exciting features, the much anticipated Silent Auction fundraiser. The Silent Auction has been extremely successful in generating much needed revenue for the PGCA and has included some wonderful donations of auction items from both PGCA Members as well as from businesses that specialize in sporting related products.
Please look around at your accumulations of shooting and sporting equipment for anything you thought you needed but find you can do without and let me or Larry Frey know what you would like to donate. (Dan Houghton has done a darned good job of the Silent Auction in the past few years but finds his plate rather full with the recent arrival of twin sons - Congratulations Dan!!)
Here's a list of Silent Auction donations to date -
1. Two very nice cherry & brass table top gun racks that hold six guns each.
Donated by Robin Lewis
2. Volumes I & II of The Parker Story signed by Daniel & Joanna Cote,
publishers of The Double Gun and Single Shot Journal & TPS
Donated by Daniel & Joanna Cote
3. A $100 Orvis Gift Certificate accompanied by three current catalogs.
Donated by Orvis, Manchester, Vt.
4. A completely hand-made 2011 Parker Calendar with a new picture page for
every month (you've really got to see this!)
Donated by Robin Lewis
5. Three Pachmayr small-bore hand guards that slip onto the barrels ahead of
the forend - 20 Ga., 28 Ga. and .410
Donated by Paul Kupferberg
6. Two boxes of Square Shot loaded shotshells - 25 count.
Donated by the Square Shot Company of Jefferson, Ohio
7. A One-Of-A-Kind Parker Comemerative polished granite piece d'art
Donated by Dave Suponski, co-owner of a professional granite
fabrication company.
8. A pair of L. L. Bean 12" Maine Hunting Shoes (Made in Maine, U.S.A.)
Donated by L. L. Bean, Freeport, Maine
9. A Parker Gun Jigsaw Puzzle (from a collage of Parker Shotgun photographs)
Donated by Robin Lewis
10. A L. L. Bean Damascus Collector's Bird & Trout Knife in a presentation
cedar box. Knife blade is etched with a ruffed grouse and an Adams fly
Donated by L. L. Bean, Freeport, Maine
11. Four Beautifully and delicately turned hardwood Christmas ornaments with a rack to hang them on donated by Mike McKinney
12. A book "More and Better Pheasant Hunting" by Steve Smith.
13. A book "Clay Pigeon Shooting, A History" by Michael Yardley.
14. A book "Mr. Buck" Autobiography by Nash Buckingham.
15. A book "Gamefield Classics" by Michael McIntosh and Bill Headrick.
16. A book "Parker Brothers, Knight of the Trigger" by Muderlack donated by Francis Morin.
17. Parker Shotgun Collage Jigsaw Puzzle donated by Robin Lweis.
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18. A Brass Powers Cleaning Rod and assorted fittings donated by Jeff Kuss.
19. A Bore & Muzzle Gauge donated by Bob Foege.
20. A book "Every Day Was Special" by William G. Tapply donated by Dean Romig.
21. Two Volume Set of Books "A Breed Apart" Vol. I and Vol. II, individually numbered limited editions of 500. Hunting dog stories by many well-known sporting authors - donated by Shooting Sportsman, Countrysport Press and editor Ed Carroll.
22. One Flat (10 boxes of 25) 28 ga. RST ammo donated by Alex & Jill Papp and Morris Baker of RST
23. One Flat (10 boxes of 25) 20 ga. RST ammo donated by Alex & Jill Papp and Morris Baker of RST
24. One Flat (10 boxes of 25) 16 ga. RST ammo donated by Alex & Jill Papp and Morris Baker of RST
25. One Flat (10 boxes of 10) 12 ga. RST ammo donated by Alex & Jill Papp and Morris Baker of RST
26. A High Quality Electronic Scale.
27. A Nicely Framed Sporting Dog Print donated by Austin Hogan.
28. A Remington Deluxe Gun Cleaning Kit donated by Buddy Marson.
29. A Hawkins Recoil Pad donated by Buddy Marson.
30. A Deluxe Copy of Vol. I of "The Parker Story" very generously donated by Charlie Price.
31. "Wilbur Parker's Notebook" donated by Charlie Price with his notation to me "As you may know, Ron Kirby copied this from the Archive held by Remington in Illion. It is dated 1869."
32. Special Low-Pressure ammo from New Era Ammunition.
33. A Parker Bros. Organ Stool donated by Jim Malone.
34. A Parker Bros. cast iron match safe donated by Jim Malone.
35. One-year subscription to "Shooting Sportsman" donated by Shooting Sportsman and editor Ed Carroll
36. One-year subscription to "Shooting Sportsman" donated by Shooting Sportsman and editor Ed Carroll.
37. Original red brick from Parker Bros. Gun Works Cherry St. Meriden, CT by Dave Suponski.
So, you see, it just keeps getting better and better and this isn't all.
We are expecting members to drop more donations by at the PGCA tent on Thursday and Friday.
To those who have donated items - Thank You!! You're the Best! We couldn't have done it without you.
Thank You 
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