CH Opportunity seized upon
I just returned home from visiting it's current owner. The serial number is 82331 and he has received the detailed letter on the CH from our very own organization. The barrels on the gun are titanic steel and the serial numbers match. There is a 2 stamped on them, he tells me that it represents the fact that they are a second Parker set produced for this gun. The original barrels the letter says are Bernard.
It has a skeleton butt plate, it sold for 150.00, sent to the New York Exposition in 1896 where it took first place, it was returned the NY Exposition in 1897 where it again took top honors. The CH was offered for sale in 1900 and sold to baseball great C.H. Mathewson of the New York Giants. Mathewson went on to be one of the 1st 5 players inducted into Cooperstown.
The gun can be found in Book 29
Built in 1895
30" barrels
English straight stock.
The left side of the receiver has a pointer and a lot of scroll.
The right side has a setter and a lot of fine scroll.
The bottom has 6 quail, trees, bushes and more scroll.
I left him with a substantial down payment and will return to get it in two weeks, Ed and Charlie, I certainly hope you are right.
I am the proud owner of a DT-10 Trident which i use regularly to give my fellow trap shooting opponents ulcers. Never did I think I would ever spend that much on another shotgun. Maybe by the time I pick it up I'll feel better, but right now I'm more than a little anxious....
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