And you think Parker memorbelia is out of hand....

[Bill Murphy]

There was a supposedly real Parker Brothers trophy banging around the Allentown PA show for a few years. I was never able to get up enough nerve to pronounce it original. Maybe Tom Kidd or Kevin McCormack will remember it. I haven't seen it in five or six years at least.

[Kevin McCormack]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

There was a supposedly real Parker Brothers trophy banging around the Allentown PA show for a few years. I was never able to get up enough nerve to pronounce it original. Maybe Tom Kidd or Kevin McCormack will remember it. I haven't seen it in five or six years at least.

Yeah, Bill: I remember it well. It had a faux bronze base marked "Parker Bros. Meriden Ct.' with two pillars in the center of which was the statue of a shooter with a Parker like gun to his shoulder. The top piece was a faux bronze bridge with two finials that looked like miniature pineapples.

It was offered by none other than the venerable "Dr." Gerald Bullock of Greene, NY, a picturesque little village hard by the kennels from whence came my great old English Setter "Smoke", world's greatest grouse dog.

After we put the trophy "under the glass" at that show, it went undergound so to speak, and I (we) never saw it again. My guess is that it was a "project" piece, probably unbeknownst to the good Dr. Bullock. As I recall he provenanced it as having been aquired with "a bunch of other Parker 'stuff'. Over the years I had bought a few good shooting trophies from him; my best score being a 1912 Labor Day traphooting cup trophy from Millbrook NY, home of the Vintagers before it moved into our back yard at Pintail Point on the Eastern Shore of MD

I still lust after a vintage Philadelphia Gun Club trophy cup, after being aced out of a c. 1919 sample offered by our "Annie Oakley" buddy at the Old Baltimore Show years ago, after he got cold feet when I offered him his advertised price in full, saying he "needed to reseach it a little more", thinking he was "selling it too cheap", when someone was willing to pay full price. I'm sure that's what dealer's purgatory is for, the more I think about it!

[Bruce Day]

Francis, the private message service should work and if it doesn't, ask the webmaster. Maybe its your computer. I've never seen any difficulty with it.

Civility is key here, and a person only has to look at some of the other websites to appreciate that....especially those sites where people hide behind noms de plume which degenerate into noms de guerre. We have this "ignore" feature, where if a person doesn't even want to see, much less read, the posts of somebody else, they can list that person to be ignored, and those posts don't even appear on his computer. But regardless, following a conversation and staying on track is a good thing, in my opinion.

[Tim Sheldon]

[QUOTE=Bruce Day;14356]

Civility is key here, and a person only has to look at some of the other websites to appreciate that....especially those sites where people hide behind noms de plume QUOTE]

Keeping with the spirit of the thread and sorta being all over the place, which is good from time to time. If I were to have a nom de plume, I think it would be Nom de plume itself. Just because I dig that phrase so much, It's just fun to say, nom de plume...



Tim

[Bruce Day]

John is the buck stops here man and contact him as you have done before.

[Bill Murphy]

Francis was not banned from this site for voluminous correspondence about unrelated subjects, although he was and is again, guilty of that (non hanging) offense. He was found guilty of bullying, using of obscenities and other offenses that only our webmaster may remember. I don't know how he got reinstated, but he did, under a name that the webmaster may not have recognized. It seems that Francis is going back to his old ways and may get banned again. Don't despair, Francis, I have been banned myself, but got myself back on track and here I am. Cut the crap and stick to the subject at hand.

[Dean Romig]

Gentlemen, it's getting difficult to see the difference between this thread and those on doublegunshop.com.... may I suggest you take your gloved (so far) fisticuffs elsewhere?

[CSL]

Dean, I agree.....
Your reference to activities on this thread resembling some over on the doublegunshop.com is a very accurate observation, particularly the recent FS post on the DGS.com where a gentleman who was simply attempting to sell his 16ga Smith had his thread hijacked and decimated by a "FOX" we are familiar with... Many folks witnessed the offensive multi-page plethora of (unrelated) minutiae, and that disturbing display may very well be one of the best (poster-child) examples of why the PGCA website has resisted having a "Guns For Sale" category... Readers can decide for themselves if they recognize any similarities in the thread link below to various posts regularly made on this site...

http://doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbt...&Number=173223

Best, CSL
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[Robert Delk]

I would be very interested to know if Parker ever commissioned any ceramics,silver loving cups or other awards to be given in their name.The Hunter Arms ceramics are a big deal for art pottery and advertising collectors many of whom don't even give a hoot about the guns.Watch fob collectors are also very aggressive in buying any rare fobs as many have disappeared over the years.Any advertising pottery/stoneware is going to be expensive and especially so when made during the art pottery era.

[Jeff K.]

Robert
I am not aware of any. The closest thing would be guns with the award plates in the stock. Has anyone else seen anything?
Jeff