Parker by Peter Johnson

[King Brown]

When I was given a 16ga hammer 0 grade under extraordinary circumstances---Destry heard the story and saw it while gunning our Eastern Shore---I bought the Johnson book and expressed my disappointment here. I rightly got my ears clipped by members who knew Peter Johnson as a friend and Parker enthusiast. Mr. Johnson apparently did the best with what he had. I mention this now because I would have felt differently about Johnson and his book if I had read what Bill disclosed above. It all comes out over time.

[MarketHunter]

Bruce,

There is some interesting information in that box of papers actually, I know because I've seen photocopies of it. Some letters between Charles Parker and Johnson come to mind specifically. To say it's a bunch of scribbled notes is kinda stupid knowing that sort of thing is in there to be looked over. There's also letters from former employees and letters from family members of dead employees too. Maybe we're talking about a different batch of papers here, but I know what I saw copies of and read had come from Johnson at least. Maybe that's not what your "friend" bought after Johnson died, I just know what I saw several years ago.


Destry

[Bruce Day]

Feel free to call Charlie Herzog and discuss the matter.

[MarketHunter]

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I like Charlie, he's a fine fella.

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Destry

[B. Dudley]

I am sure this thread was started speaking about the P. Johnson book entitled "Parker: America's Finiest Shotgun".

I have a copy of that book. Picked it up pretty cheap on Ebay. It is a good read, and has very good information. One thing that I found is that being it was writen so long ago that there is some informaiton that is not 100% accurate. One that really caught my attention was that it says that only 2 invincibles were produced, and we know now that the figure is 3.
And I think that the production figures by Grade may be off in spots, but Johnson states that fact clearly.