DHE .410 For Sale

Dean Romig · 08-31-2009, 12:15 AM

I bought a copy of the April 1935 issue of Hunting and Fishing magazine and found some very interesting things. It's a lot of fun to read those old articles and stories and look at the prices of some of those guns and things. We have to remember that the country was trying to pull out of a economic crisis much worse than the one we are experiencing now and if we think those prices are ridiculously low we should try to put it into perspective. If a regular Joe earned $2000 in 1935 he was doing very well indeed.

Have fun looking at these pics.

SXS OHIO · 08-31-2009, 08:39 AM

If you worked in a southern ohio coal mine in 1920 the company paid 10 cents per ton delivered to the serface. It had to be all quality coal. A young man in his 20-s could do 40 ton a day on his belly 8-10 hours. They could not work every day due to mine conditions and lost many a day work and had to work sat-sunday to make up lost pay. Many miners died due to all the hassards of the job. The mine opperated three shifts and was very unsafe. It was a job that would feed your family and they were few. The cost of living was high, after paying for company housing and company store bill, doctor bills ect. few of these guys if any perchased parker guns! But the man who owned the mine and the co. store he could afford a parker!, on the backs of them working men! He lived on a large estate up high on the hill above the city well seperated from the working men. He also hob knobed with the social eletes and polititions of the day. Now thats perspective! Today working class america is being forced to compete with off shore sweat shop labor from the likes of comunist china! Do you think store clerksIt will be buying the parkers of our time?....I think not! The working class better dump them demicrats couse they don't work for you any more! Sorry but its true! The ones running things have become WOLD CLASS SOCIALISTS...It is time for change.

Don Kaas · 08-31-2009, 09:31 AM

Kohl minners dint buy no baby Perkers, I reckon...Thanks for the 21st Century populist rant early 20th century socio-economic conditions in the coal fields, not many of us knew this...you really should have mentioned St. John L. Lewis in there too. For man obsessed with Japanese copies of American guns, a somewhat curious stance on the global economy... anyway, I like the dimensions on that Parker .410, Dean...grab it!

Dean Romig · 08-31-2009, 10:16 AM

I tried the tel. no. of Hunting and Fishing magazine in Boston (731J) but all I got was "Please hang up and try your call again . . ." I just don't know what to do.
I guess I'll drop in at 77 Chestnut St in Andover this evening and discuss it with the editor who happens to be appreciative of Parker guns and owns some himself.

Bill Murphy · 08-31-2009, 10:33 AM

I always thought that DHE may have been the .410 that William Harnden Foster was reputed to have owned.

Dean Romig · 08-31-2009, 10:52 AM

I was told he owned a AHE .410 that he sold to help with the cost of educating of his children. I'm working on that puzzle as we speak. Don't know if we'll ever know for sure. The clues are getting weaker and weaker.

Bruce Day · 08-31-2009, 12:36 PM

Very interesting Dean and thank you for sharing the ads. I am always interested in Parker history.

Bill Murphy · 08-31-2009, 01:28 PM

Dean, how are you doing on the research project we discussed by email?

Dean Romig · 08-31-2009, 01:53 PM

Bill, I have traded several e-mails with Bob and I'll be sending him a check as soon as he tells me what to write in the $____.-- line. Totally inconclusive as far as I know but I'm hoping for another clue in what he is able to send me.

Glenn Fewless · 08-31-2009, 02:11 PM

[QUOTE=Dean Romig;3419]I tried the tel. no. of Hunting and Fishing magazine in Boston (731J) but all I got was "Please hang up and try your call again . . ." QUOTE]

I am afraid we have another early 20th Century socio-economic issue here. You have to pick up the phone and wait until the operator says "What number please?"

Glenn