Interesting Provenance

[Bill Murphy]

T.H. Keller was the manager of the New York office of Peters Cartridge Company. He was a prolific competition shooter as well as a way more than serious hunter. He had a rather large "motor launch", whatever that is, where he and his co-owners entertained waterfowl hunters. I own Keller's DH Grade hammerless eight gauge that apparently was his gun for volume waterfowl slaughter. It is the only 30" hammerless eight Parker ever made, according to The Parker Story. It is a lightweight at about ten pounds, maybe the lightest Parker eight out there. It handles like a bird gun. Go on la84.com to search for many mentions of Keller's exploits.

[Drew Hause]

Keller in 1898
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL3026024.pdf

Image of Keller with Tom Marshall in 1913
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL6120034.PDF

Report of his death in 1916
http://books.google.com/books?id=VN1...J&pg=PA876&lpg

http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%...20-%200567.pdf

His son 'Haze' was a Hunter Arms rep
http://www.la84foundation.org/Sports.../SL5216013.pdf
THE Hunter Arms Company has again "hit" the "shining mark" of enterprise in taking on two new salesmen Haze Keller, Jr., a son of Thomas Keller famous as the best-natured man who "travels the road” and Neale Moore, son of Harvey McMurchy, long in the service of the same company. These two young men give every promise of "bringing down the game" and a "rapid fire" of orders for Smith guns that will break all records, is expected from their trips in 1909. Keller will "hunt" for business in the Eastern States and Canada, and Moore in the West under the able guidance of his father.