What caught my eye was --
Business went very well until the Depression of 1929, and then it fell off from thousands of shotguns sold each month to just a few hundred.
More like a few hundred each month to no more than single or double digits. Very likely there was never a 1000 gun month in Parker Bros. history. From the chronology in the back of
The Parker Story the best year was just over nine thousand in 1883.
When the VH was first introduced, in 1899, it sold for $50.
$50 was the high list price. What they actually sold to the customer for was the $37.50 net price. For some now long lost reason all our manufactures put a very high "List Price" on their products which actually sold for a much lower "Net Price." The practice seems to have died out with the inflationary period that accompanied The Great War. Both prices given in this 1906 Wm. Read & Sons catalog --
1906 Wm. Read & Sons catalog.jpg