Parker Cover Art or Not?

[Dean Romig]

The DHE is still on display in the mezzanine between the ground floor hunting and shooting department and the second floor fishing department in Freeport, Maine. It is mounted vertically in a glass or plexi-glass case. That DHE has a "sinestral" stock because of the loss of vision in the right eye that LL suffered later in life.

I asked the gun department manager if I could examine it and do a photo layout and story on the gun for Parker Pages and he said "Yes, please do."
When I came back with my photography stuff about a month later I was told by the manager of advertising and publicity "Absolutely not!"

I've been treated poorly by Bean's before that so it wasn't a huge surprise.... just a big slap in the face.

The LL Bean Parker that was sold several years ago went through JD Julia Auctions and it was a CHE.





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[edgarspencer]

The one shown in the catalog photos I posted previously did not have a sinestral stock.
I’m not at all surprised by their response to your request, Dean, but you may recall our conversation out on the deck on one of my visits with you, (well, with Kathy, but you were there) that I had a positive response from the local LLB people when I approached them to shoot some photos wth their products with one of my DHEs. I have not, as yet followed up but will when their winter line is out. Any excuse to pick up another shirt, doncha know.