Chas Parker tools

[Bill Murphy]

I believe it was member Jerry Smith who donated a vise at the silent auction a while back. Few east coasters fly to the Vintagers, so carting a vise home by car is no big deal. Francis, at twenty bucks, the hardware catalog is a repro, but very interesting reading. An original hardware catalog in good condition would sell for a price that would buy a good Parker shotgun.

[Kevin McCormack]

I had a handful of Chas. Parker Co. salesman's callback cards which were left with customers who had purchased and used the Parker vise; sort of like an evaluation card for future PR and sales boosters. All of them are gone now but I did donate the best one to the PGCA collection.

[Robert Delk]

I see quite a few Parker vises here in northeast Iowa. I retired from John Deere and they still use some Parker vises along with Rock Island and some other manufacturers. I have a Parker machinist vise at home and have sold others. The smallest ones bring a premium when found as well as the very largest.I know where there is an enormous Parker vise that supposedly came out of a railroad yard,but the lady isn't quite ready to sell it.She has had a garage sale every year for the last 20 or so and the vise is in plain sight and she gets hit up on it every sale but noone has got it away from her.

[Francis Kennedy]

Gentlemen,
Thank you for your informative and kind replies. I thought perhaps a question about vises on a gun site devoted to the best shotgun made would fall on deaf ears.
I will let my friend know of your responses and I am sure it will be appreciated. I do believe he is going to try and sell it, but would most likely have to be local, as shipping prices on such an item would be dreadful. If anyone has an interest I will gladly supply his phone number.

Again, thank you for your kind replies. Perhaps when I post again it will be about Parker guns.

[Old and Reliable]

[quote=Francis Kennedy;16098]Gentlemen,
Thank you for your informative and kind replies. I thought perhaps a question about vises on a gun site devoted to the best shotgun made would fall on deaf ears.
I will let my friend know of your responses and I am sure it will be appreciated. I do believe he is going to try and sell it, but would most likely have to be local, as shipping prices on such an item would be dreadful. If anyone has an interest I will gladly supply his phone number.

Again, thank you for your kind replies. Perhaps when I post again it will be about Parker guns.[

[Bill Murphy]

One of our members, now deceased, a West Virginian, reprinted the rare and valuable hardware catalog years ago. I don't know if the one being offered on ebay is the same catalog that was reprinted by our member. It is one wonderful catalog. Mr. Morin, the same person had a hard cover Parker-Whipple catalog of door hardware that is the most extensive catalog of Parker hardware I have ever seen. The catalog was procured from a person who actually sold these Parker-Whipple door hardware items and a salesman's sample door knob assembly was also in the collection. Another example of this catalog was offered on ebay a few years ago. Unfortunately, it was trashed by its use as a scrapbook with cut out "stuff" including 100 pages of newspaper clippings being glued over the Parker-Whipple text. On the other hand, it is fortunate that a serious collector of Parker paper bought the catalog, for a somewhat reasonable price of $600.00. That will give you some idea of what an unmolested example of this catalog of doorknobs may sell for. I missed a Parker bathroom accessories catalog not too long ago that sold for about $350.00. Of course, it was a scarce one!. Mr. Morin, are you sure you don't want to join us on the internet auction sites?

[Autumn Daze]

I dunno...Thanks to Ebay I have a couple clocks,several coffee mills,match box's,specticles and case,a high backed mahogany piano stool,a meat grinderl and a great lamp that I use every day along with some other useless stuff....and oh ya a couple Parker guns...

[Bill Murphy]

Dave, tell me about it.

[Old and Reliable]

[quote=Dave Suponski;16111]I dunno...Thanks to Ebay I have a couple clocks,several coffee mills,match box's,specticles and case,a high backed mahogany piano stool,a meat grinderl and a great lamp that I use every day along with some other useless stuff....and oh ya a couple Parker guns...

[Dean Romig]

Dave was at my house back in December/January preparatory to the New Years Day Shoot and he said "Hey Curmudgeon, where'd ya get the Parker oil lamp?"
I didn't even know it was one until he demanded I drag out my TPS so he could show me. It was my Grandmother's lamp... Whoever would have thought it