Parker Cover Art or Not?

[Richard Flanders]

Not Parker related but if anyone is interested in reading the very first issue - Vol. 1, No. 1 - of Outdoor Life from 1898, I have a PDF scan of it I made up from an original a friend has. It's a bit large a file to email but I can dropbox it. It has a cool story of an Alaskan moose hunt in the Kuskokwim area.

[John Gardner]

I would certainly like to read it

[John Gardner]

October 1924 has four guys playing cards with what looks like a Parker in the lower left corner of the cover.

[John Gardner]

Sorry had finger trouble yesterday - National Sportsman Oct 1924 may have Parker on cover. I will post pics and two others on weekend.

[John Gardner]

New Pictures as promised. Not sure all are Parkers but you can decide. The definite Parker is from National Sportsman Sept 1936, The ones from 1924 and 1921 are artist's renditions so...your call!

[edgarspencer]

The Remington ad definitely shows a Parker and it looks like a G grade.

[edgarspencer]

The one in the foreground of the National Sportsman has the hinge pin and receiver profile of a Parker, perhaps loosely interpreted by the artist, but the one on Outers Recreation isn't a Parker. It looks like it might be a Lefever Nitro Special, or possibly an Ithica. I pay so little attention to all the 'others' I am an unreliable person for this sort of stuff.
There's a gun shop in Maine, on my route to our place up there. I always stop by, and with the unique hinge pin on a Parker, I can scan his huge rack of SxSs in about 15 seconds, and be back in the car before my wife gets antsy.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

There's a gun shop in Maine, on my route to our place up there. I always stop by, and with the unique hinge pin on a Parker, I can scan his huge rack of SxSs in about 15 seconds, and be back in the car before my wife gets antsy.

Edgar, please PM me with the name of the shop and the town.....


HEY, I'm not asking you for the coordinates of your favorite woodcock cover...