INVINCIBLES - Page 2

MarketHunter · 08-31-2009, 05:46 PM

What missing one? All three are in the NRA Museum. There are two 12 gauge and one 16 gauge there in the museum on display.

That hardware story sounds a lot like another one I heard about Bo Whoop.

Bill Murphy · 08-31-2009, 05:59 PM

George, I haven't heard that story and none are thought to be missing. A good start on a bibliography would be The Parker Story. I think there is an even more complete story in a not so old Parker Pages authored or coauthored by Dietrich Apel who owned #230,329.

George Lander · 08-31-2009, 06:08 PM

Bill: I'm not sure where I read or heard the story. It could have been another special gun. Also there was a story that I read about one that was found in a house, I believe in Birmingham, Alabama, that was purchased by a young doctor. Was that one of the three?

Best Regards, George

Don Kaas · 08-31-2009, 06:25 PM

That was the A.C. Middleton gun, the 16 found in Middleton's house in New Jersey by the new owner of the house. Middleton was a senior executive with the Victor Talking Machine Co. and a protegee of Eldridge Johnson. All of this information has been published ad nauseum in DGJ as well as TPS. If I recall this how all the BS about the found "Bo Whoop" started. Now, another Invincible...sheeeezz...

Bruce Day · 08-31-2009, 06:29 PM

Invincible, Inbelievable and Inplausible.

Don Kaas · 08-31-2009, 06:47 PM

Sounds like 3 WWI British battle cruisers...and their sister ship, H.M.S. Incomprehensible...

Bruce Day · 08-31-2009, 07:08 PM

All of which were sunk by mines laid by the Graft Spree.

Robert Delk · 08-31-2009, 07:26 PM

The gun that was supposedly stolen was #200,000. They must have gotten it back it seems if,indeed, it was stolen.

Bill Murphy · 08-31-2009, 07:32 PM

And where did you read that story? We had a pretty good bibliography at one time and we would like to add that tidbit to it.

Robert Delk · 08-31-2009, 07:46 PM

I think it was in an old Guns&Ammo article or maybe in a story about the Invincibles in another magazine. The story predates "TPS" that's for sure.The gun was supposedly on display at Kennedys Sporting Goods store which was in Minnesota somewhere or maybe it was Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The gun was on display and the story had it that it disappeared when it was sent on to somewhere else.This was some years ago but I am certain of it as far as I have given details as I have always been interested in Parker lore and read everything on it.I might have read it in "Forest & Stream" also as at one time I owned a complete set of them.