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Ok Francis What the Hell are you Talking about
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07-06-2010, 08:48 PM
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Anyway.....Dave,Thanks for posting that great picture of Kevin and yourself and a couple of great Parker's.
Bill,Was Wagners a high volume Parker dealer in their day?
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Francis, Mr. Wagner's first name was mentioned in my first post. Dave, yes, William Wagner was not only a very high volume Parker dealer, he was the original promoter of 28 gauge guns in the earliest years of their production. If you will refer to your great Parker Pages article about the earliest 28 gauges, you will find that Wagner ordered some of the first. My little quail gun is the seventh 28 gauge ordered, and it came from William Wagner's store. Mr. McCormack and I have a definitive body of research about Wagner's early orders, but we have been denied access by the PGCA BOD to a couple of order book copies which would allow us to complete our research. By the way, the PP article on early 28 gauges was completed without any assistance from the BOD although we could have used it. Oh well.
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Bill, Very interesting info. Thank You. Are there any photos of Wagner's store around anywhere? I would have to think Wagner's location to the Chesapeake Bay region had to at least account for some of volume of gun sales.What era do we need info for to complete your research?
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OK, guys - just to keep your antennae up - there are a pair of PHE 28 ga. fluid steel barreled guns that came through Wm. Wagner's store. The pair are consecutively numbered and currently live on the Eastern Shore of MD. Babe and his father ran them through the old shop on 5th Ave. in Ilion in the early 1960s. To my knowledge no one has seen them since, but we are still looking.
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Bill, Thank you very much for your enlightening and informative post.
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07-07-2010, 12:00 PM
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Look in the 2009 issue 2 for the article "Early 28 Gauge Parkers" on page 49.
To find this I went to "parkerguns.org" then to "Parker Pages" and clicked on the "Parker Pages Index" and searched ("ctrl f" to get search box) for "early 28" and there it is. |
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Bill, Thank you so much for the additional info. Now I kinda wish we had this conversation while I was putting the article together. The article was born out of the "What was the earliest 28 gauge serial numbers" if I remember right. But I think an article on "Uncle Billy" would be well recieved. Are you and Kevin working on anything? If I can be of help just ask...
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