West Coast Parkers

[Garth Gustafson]

My 16 ga GH was shipped in April, 1897 to Tufts Lyon Arms Co at 611 S. Olive St, Los Angeles. By 2014 it had migrated to northern Illinois.

[Kevin McCormack]

As 'Researcher' said, there were a ton of long-barreled smallbore Parkers sent to the CA, particularly the LA area, in the heyday of the private duck clubs (c. 1910-1926) in and around LA, Long Beach, etc. Many years ago I bought a 32" 20 gauge DHE straight grip from Butterfield's Auction in SF that just screamed "special order duck gun" in that era, well used and slightly beat up. It had 3" chambers and full choke in both bbls. The stock and order books for the gun were both missing, and trying mightily to connect it to Hedderly and his crew, I was never able to definitely determine it to be so. I would have gladly paid for comb scraping DNA analysis to see where it went and who used it! Tons of waterfowling history there.

[todd allen]

There are two different worlds in California. There is the gun owning, hunting, competitive shooting, gun collecting California, and then there is the other one.

[Bill Kekatos]

My recently acquired 16GA VH was shipped to east coast. Anyone familiar with Wm H. Hoeger Co, Inc.? BillK

[Kevin McCormack]

The letter has a typo; it is (was) the Hoegee Co., not Hoeger Co.

[Bill Kekatos]

Thank you for the heads up. Is the Co still around?
BillK

[Angel Cruz Ortiz]

My 20 ga Trojan with 30 inch bbls. was shipped to Lewald and Schlueter in Fresno, Ca. on July 29, 1918.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

The letter has a typo.

No Way

[Researcher]

Catalogue No. 12, 1907 --

[Jim P.]

This 1906 VH 20ga letters to LA