Reading and learning about doubles years ago, an old collector said he loved old doubles "because they harbor old mens soles", as time goes by I cant pick up a worn parker without thinking of the times and places it may have been. Now each one I own has at least a story, some known, some imagined. Like a little VH 16 found in a fishing store in Cheasapeake, I know an old duck hunter hunted on the bay with it and it remains in well cared for condition but being a 16, kind of an interesting duck gun for its time. Another 28 ga DHE from the same area had barrels in terrible condition, used hard and put up uncleaned over and over but one I wish I had bought. The $12k asking was a lot at the time but I wish I could have bought it, even if I had to sleeve the barrels. I still wonder who got it.
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