Remington VHE

Hammer Gun · 12-07-2011, 10:23 AM

Now now boys, remember Santa Claus is coming to town,aaaand he knows if you been good or bad! so be good for goodness sakes!

Bill Murphy · 12-07-2011, 12:05 PM

Eric, we also discovered D. Lee Braun's 28 gauge skeet gun from IBM cards, as well as Annie Laurie Crawford's DHE two barrel set. Other interesting IBM cards are pictured in The Parker Story. I recommend that Mr. Hewlett take a shot at a PGCA letter to see whether his gun is identified by customer as many are through the IBM card entries. Most IBM cards I have examined at least have a date entered.

CSL · 12-07-2011, 12:42 PM

Bill,
On the IBM card information you mentioned above, what were the serial number ranges of Eric's gun and the others, were they all numerically close, or were they randomly scattered in the later Remington/Parker time period?...

Best, Chris
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Bill Murphy · 12-07-2011, 03:51 PM

Chris, only Mark knows at which serial number the IBM cards start, unless it is mentioned in The Parker Story. When we found the cards in the Remington Archives, they were a bit mixed up. We did get them in order to copy them, but I don't remember the serial number range. I think they go to the very beginning of Remington ownership of Parker Brothers. There is quite a bit of overlap of Stock Book records (last entry 238,934) and the first IBM cards (236,000 range or earlier). There may be IBM cards for much earlier guns that may have still been in stock. The latest IBM cards are probably the last numbers in the Serialization Book, (241,788). I hope Mark posts to give us the information.

CSL · 12-07-2011, 07:15 PM

Thanks for the insight Bill, The stock book records overlap helps narrow the window during the transition between Parker/Remington... I've often wondered if there was a specific reason why some IBM cards contained very little information, while others seem to have much more detail. Perhaps it had to do with a particular time period, or maybe it was dealers like Kerr's Sporting Goods placing special orders for high profile customers that resulted in more details applied to the cards?... I'm also interested to see if Mark has a theory or knows why some IBM cards had more information than others?...

Best, CSL
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Bill Murphy · 12-07-2011, 09:14 PM

I have IBM card copies as early as February of 1935. I assume there are IBM cards with 1934 dates, but don't know for sure.