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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
Pat, there is a 26 page index in the front of each 300 page order book. The index is alphabetical, but no mention is made of the location of each customer. You would have to read each of the 300 pages of orders to determine the state the order was placed from. Customers like Simmons Hardware, E.K. Tryon, Tufts Lyons, Iver Johnson, and Abercrombie and Fitch ordered pages of guns and sent them to individuals and dealers all over the country. These destinations are not mentioned. You have a tough job ahead of you.
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Bill,
Thank you for information on order books. The index you describe sounds interesting. Perhaps the keepers of the books could scan the index from say.... Order book 44 and post it here or in the Parker pages as an example. Again, I think it would an interesting study to see where the guns went. I agree it would be a tall order as well.
I volunteer to be the Parker records research assistant. You can think of it as the Parker book of the month club. Each month the PGCA can send me a Parker Records book and I will catalog the index in a database and read the 300 pages in each book and catalog any information found on who ordered these guns. Once complete the database can be used by PGCA or published on this site.
thank you
Patrick
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