Research Letter Followup

[Pa SxS]

Chris,

The order book didn't mention chokes and the stock book choke column wasn't visible due to the way the book was placed in the copier. My guess is that it was full and full.

[Bill Murphy]

Arthur W. Read, amateur trapshooter from Portland, Maine, shot Interstate Association birds in the mid teens, but no sign of him shooting in the twenties. He was not a prolific shooter and shot scores from the low eighties to the mid nineties. He only shot a couple hundred birds a year. T.B. Davis was a Parker dealer during that time, his name appearing often in the order books. There are search results for "davis portland" on this website. I have a 1912 catalog with a T.B. Davis stamp on the cover.