And you think Parker memorbelia is out of hand....

[Bruce Day]

Now Francis, don't put words in my mouth. I did not call Mr Hoffard "Falstaff". I was responding to a post by Bill Bolyard and Destry picked up on my citation to the quote from Shakespeare and jumped in. What name Destry chooses to call and label himself is not my concern nor my doing. In fact I like his waterfowling posts and appreciate his dedication to that aspect of hunting. He certainly likes getting wet and freezing at 5am a lot more than I do.

Bruce Once was a Young Urban Professional ( Yuppie), now a Middle Aged Urban Professional ( Muppie) Day.

[Bill Murphy]

You have to be quick to bid on those pitchers if you don't keep a daily hook out for them on ebay. I missed one advertised by a lady whose house I can see from the upstairs windows of my house. Didn't see the ad until a couple of hours after it sold, maybe to Chris. I think it would be neat to be able to track a pitcher to the shooter who won it, but I've not been able to do that. Francis, I guess you are here for the duration. As always, congratulations, and my offer of an invitation to attend the Smith shoot still stands.

[Bill Murphy]

Dick, my exact words were "I'll get you a sponsor if you're not a memeber." I did not imply that I would be that "sponsor". My offer still stands, though.

[Autumn Daze]

Thanks Larry,I know there are a few others besides the one's we mentioned but it was the best I could do off the top of my head....

[Bill Murphy]

There was a supposedly real Parker Brothers trophy banging around the Allentown PA show for a few years. I was never able to get up enough nerve to pronounce it original. Maybe Tom Kidd or Kevin McCormack will remember it. I haven't seen it in five or six years at least.

[Kevin McCormack]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

There was a supposedly real Parker Brothers trophy banging around the Allentown PA show for a few years. I was never able to get up enough nerve to pronounce it original. Maybe Tom Kidd or Kevin McCormack will remember it. I haven't seen it in five or six years at least.

Yeah, Bill: I remember it well. It had a faux bronze base marked "Parker Bros. Meriden Ct.' with two pillars in the center of which was the statue of a shooter with a Parker like gun to his shoulder. The top piece was a faux bronze bridge with two finials that looked like miniature pineapples.

It was offered by none other than the venerable "Dr." Gerald Bullock of Greene, NY, a picturesque little village hard by the kennels from whence came my great old English Setter "Smoke", world's greatest grouse dog.

After we put the trophy "under the glass" at that show, it went undergound so to speak, and I (we) never saw it again. My guess is that it was a "project" piece, probably unbeknownst to the good Dr. Bullock. As I recall he provenanced it as having been aquired with "a bunch of other Parker 'stuff'. Over the years I had bought a few good shooting trophies from him; my best score being a 1912 Labor Day traphooting cup trophy from Millbrook NY, home of the Vintagers before it moved into our back yard at Pintail Point on the Eastern Shore of MD

I still lust after a vintage Philadelphia Gun Club trophy cup, after being aced out of a c. 1919 sample offered by our "Annie Oakley" buddy at the Old Baltimore Show years ago, after he got cold feet when I offered him his advertised price in full, saying he "needed to reseach it a little more", thinking he was "selling it too cheap", when someone was willing to pay full price. I'm sure that's what dealer's purgatory is for, the more I think about it!

[Drew Hause]

The L.C. Smith Trophy went for $810.