Provenance- What do you have in your safe?

[Craig Larter]

Mills: Guns with provenance or partial provenance would make a great theme for next years Southern. It sure would be an eclectic gathering of Parker guns but big fun in my opinion. I hate to see all the tables in the Parker tent go basically empty.

[Double Lab]

Great idea Craig. Another topic for a display could be "your favorite shooter".

[edgarspencer]

Gary Herman sold my dad a lot of Parkers right up till he died. My dad, not Gary; he's still alive. One particular 16ga. CHE was purported to have belonged to Dwight Eisenhower, prior to becoming president. There was no backup documentation so we took it with a grain of salt. Pete Harvey sold the old boy a BHE20 (the gun I miss the most) which belonged to a member of the Bissell family. John Bissell was one of the founding citizens of Windors CT. His grandson went into partnership with Christopher Spencer (Spencer repeating carbine) who was my great grandfather's first cousin.
My GHE 28 was bought by an up and coming New Yorker Bank Vice President, E.H.Rawls. The next entry in the A&F ledger for GH elector guns was the purchase of a GHE 20, by E.F. Hutton.
The gun I have with the most significant provenance to me is a VH 16, on a one frame, bought on his 16th birthday by my hero and mentor, Edgar Spencer Jr.

[John Davis]

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[Harold Pickens]

Daryl, you were certainly missed at the Southern. Do the PT as directed.
Someone earlier mentioned Robert Urich. he grew up in Toronto ,Ohio just 45 min from me. I was his guide in 1989 at the National Grouse and Woodcock Hunt in Grand Rapids, MInnesota. My stepson , Jeremy, has been with me since he was 3. His father died young of a brain tumor, but he grew up with Robert Urich and they were close friends. Urich was a genuinely nice guy.