Invincibles

[Alfred Greeson]

Shooting Sportsman Volume XII Issue V, September/October 2000, has a great article by Roger Lake called "The 'Lost' Invincible". It tells the full story of #233565, the gun and its restoration with pictures, copies of correspondence between Dr .Lyman and Parker Bros., the original work order and even copies of the hanging tags and detail of the restoration by Del Grego. Interesting, they expected the gun to sell for $150 to $200,000 at auction.

[Bill Murphy]

I was in error when I indicated Dietrich Apel wrote an article on #200,000. His article and knowledge is of the 16 gauge Invincible. Some day, one of our posters may write the story of #200,000 and its whereabouts for so many years when it was "lost".

[Jean Swanson]

Bill :

I do not know if this will help, but upon the death of Austin Hogan , Pam Hogan gave me two pictures of Invincible S/N 230329 that Dietrich Apel had given Austin. There was a note attached to the back of the photos that stated that this Invincible was purchased by a person named George Ford from Paul Jaeger in Jenkintown, PA.

After the purchase Mr. Ford found out the value of the gun and purchased Christmas presents for both Dietrich and Paul . A comprehensive story was written by Austin and appeared in the PGCA Journal vol. 15 spring 2008.

Allan