Talk about being late to the dance. I just saw this and thought I would comment.
In the fifties Clark was a pro for Ithaca, so for singles he would have used the house brand. In his case I think it was a 4E, but don't hold me to it.
Ithaca did not have a doubles gun in production at the time, unless you count the M37 (I've tried it, it works), which might have given him a bit of wiggle room inasmuch as the Parker was out of production, but so too was the NID, and it was seen on the trap lines into the early sixties. In that regard, a Parker SxS would have been a rub.
I think it was common for photographers to ask a hotshot to pick up "that gun" for a opportune photo op. There are a lot of pictures of Joe Hiestand holding Winchesters of various sorts, when in fact he shot just about everything but.
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