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Unread 04-12-2012, 06:09 PM   #1
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Default Dealer Clapp & Treat (Hartford CT)

I am looking for orders or sales of Parkers through this store which was originally in downtown Hartford and ultimately in West Hartford. Of course actual guns that were sold through Clapp & Treat are of interest.
Like a lot of Parker sellers, it was originally a hardware store and it morphed into a sporting goods store. That was its downfall, probably.
It closed through a secured creditor sale in the late 80's or early 90's.
I would like to write an article about it for the pages if I get some information on orders and sales.
If you have any research letters that reflect orders by Clapp & Treat I would love to see them.
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Clapp & Treat?

I think I went there once.

Wait, maybe that was the free clinic at the health department....


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Good one big guy! Thanks, I really needed a good laugh.
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Destry; That is funny. Not true I hope.
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Destry: You ought to be in show biz....... That was a good one........George
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Destry- a big belly laugh for me too
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Default Destry- a big belly laugh for me too

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you have too much time on your hands.
go clean those dusty Parkers.

and find me some Clapp & Treat info!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Clapp & Treat?

I think I went there once.

Wait, maybe that was the free clinic at the health department....


Go to the medical officer in Pusan, Korea (1969). One day, at one of our staff meetings with the Colonel, when asked to give a report on the success of the VD control program, the head doctor (who happened to be a Gynecologist), shrugged his shoulders and reported, "Well Colonel, this week, I have looked into some of the worst sewers you can imagine". 40 years after the fact, I Googled my old company ( 609th Ordinance Co) and the only thing which came up was some study on VD in Korea which mentioned tha fact that when the dopot closed, and the company moved further up the peninsula, the "girls" followed the company.
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George, do you remember Vine Parmalee, the State Supreme Ct judge? He sold me a gun that he bought at the Hfd store. It was new, in the box, with the sales receipt. I eventually traded it in on something at the Newington Gun Exchange. The guy there said he never heard of C&T. I still have the model 12 my dad bought me in 1957 from them. I think they were still in Hartford then.
I have a friend, whose mother's maiden name is one or the other, though which, I can't remember.
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Sorry George, I know this is a serious post for you. I just couldn't resist. *wink*

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