Parker Time Capsule

[Bill Murphy]

George, I have a DH #3 frame two barrel Damascus set very similar to Wally's gun that letters. It is one big gun. I have the front half of an 1897 CH two barrel Bernard set that letters to a dealer in Charleston. Thanks to John Davis, it is now mated up with a very nice DH skeleton butt back end. Those are the only lettered two barrel sets I have owned.

[Austin W Hogan]

Larry; Babe and Lawrence showed me the ejector drilling jig. They also told me they had worked on a 5 digit s/n gun that was drilled with the manufacturing jig, not the retrofit jig.

George; I once had four two barrel sets; grades 1,2,3,4. I am not sure what you consider as "lettering". Two were ordered as two barrel sets, and two had second barrel sets fitted a short time after delivery. One is a one gauge, two steel match weight set; one is a one steel two gauge match weight set, one a two gauge, two steel upland and waterfowl set, and the newest a one steel, one gauge upland and waterfowl set.

Best, Austin

[Mark Conrad]

Walley, nice find on this interesting gun. He could have spent another $50.00 and had two guns. Guns ordered as two barrel sets are on the rare side.

Mark

James Byrnes was indeed a Gentleman of the great Palmetto State, and refused endorsement by the KKK- this was back in the era of the "Yellow Dog Democrats"--and when tacit endorsement by the "Three Circles Interlocked"- from Kuklos, the Greek word for circle- insured re-election. I didn't know he was a guest at Hobcaw Barony- as was the late Tar Heel Stater Robert C. Ruark, who also shot "buuurds" with Mr. Baruch--

In Ruark's story about that, he mentions Baruch shooting a well worn but fine grade 16 bore double- George, do you have any idea what make a grade double might have been Baruch's pet quail gun??

Just as FDR's Veep- James N. Garner once said, when asked what it was like to be a V-P, and gave a straight-forward reply alluding to a bucket full of lukewarm spit, a reporter once asked Harry Truman for some advice, and Harry said "Never kick a fresh dog turd on a hot summer's day"-- Our Country needs straight talking politicos and elected officials instead of a "Disney on the Potomac Chiefed by the Double-Tongued"!