Order Book #5

[MarketHunter]

I've heard a story as to why the Delgrego Family won't release their record books. If anybody wants to hear it, feel free to drop a PM.

Destry

[Bill Murphy]

I get the tone of Robin's post, but his arithmetic is skewed. His reply is to a post that suggests digitizing the customer base. The customer base is 26 pages for each order book, with very few entries under Q, Z, X, and Z. It is not neccesary to record each gun, only one entry for each customer. This would be a very interesting addition to our data.

[Dean Romig]

I agree Bill - it would help in determining instances a gun was sent back for additional work and if a particular customer (not a retailer) had purchased other Parker guns.






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[Bindlestiff]

Sorry Bill, I guess I didn't understand what was being digitized. I didn't know there were anything called a "customer base" in each book. I have never looked at an entire book, I have only seen an individual page from a book. I assumed the intent was to digitize the entire content of each book and then take that to build a relational database to search for whatever desired data was of interest.

Just goes to prove the adage about the first three letters of the word assume and how it might reflect on the person making an assumption.

[Bill Murphy]

Robin, when you open an order book, the first page will be customers whose names begin with A, whether it is zero A's or a whole page full. It goes on for 26 pages. To the right of each customer's name are the page numbers where that customer's orders appear. Not every page entry is for a gun order. Some entire order books are only repairs but still have the customer index. The digitizing of the customer pages would be done in a similar fashion that the Serialization Book was done. Customer name, order book number, page number are the only entries neccesary. Just those three entries, with no mention of a gun, would give the researcher something to use to look up that customer's purchases. If a company like Abercrombie and Fitch or Tryon has multiple purchases on a page, the page need only be listed once in the researcher's data.

[Hammer Gun]

I was given a copy of either stock book number 5 or order book number five cannot remember which from Ron Kirby I gave it and a lot of info 5 boxes full to Jim Hall, i do not believe it contains anything we don.t already know, but I am getting ready to move soon and getting rid of some stuff. Gary

[Dean Romig]

Gary, do you plan to offer anything here that you’re getting rid of?





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