Sucks to be poor

[C grade]

That gun was at the Fall Southern last weekend and it is spectacular!! Replacement stock by Brad Brachwlder I think. Chuck had several beautiful Parkers there and was willing to "deal".
David

[Bob beach]

Angel,

If you had been around between 1920 and 1922 you could have bought this same Parker at Von Lengerke & Detmold (#173979) as a used gun for $275. It was sold three times during that period. The sale recorded in the photo below shows that it was sold as a consigned shotgun in 1921. It came in from J.A. Sloan who wanted to net $225 from the sale. The parker was sold to Gus Diderrich who was a chef for Alice Vanderbilt and, later, for Peter A.B. Widener, a very wealthy Philadelphian. Gus Didderich was one of the most frequent buyers of very high end firearms (Purdey, Boss, H&H, Parker, etc) between 1910 and 1930. He must have been a darn good cook. But to keep things in perspective, $275 would likely have bought you a new Ford at that time.



Compliments of Griffin & Howe

Bob Beach
Records Archivist

[Angel Cruz Ortiz]

Bob, thanks for that bit of history, that's real neat. I'm only 89 years too late.

[Bill Murphy]

Mr. Beach, was that the Sloan from Sloan's Sporting Goods up the street? I take it that maybe Sloan's didn't deal in used guns? Sloan's sold some wonderful new guns but I don't know about the used ones. I once lettered a Parker gun from Sloan's that was sold to Annie Laurie Crawford, a serious shooter who once inherited something like 31 large, only one of her sources of income. Bill Murphy