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Doug Stewart who had his book for sale on this site, The Traditional Side by Side: King of the Upland Bird Gun, is also one to add to your list. He writes about many original and reproduction Parkers in his book.
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In his book “the biography of a sportsman”, Austin Haight talks about his Parker 20 ga., the apple of his eye.
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Great! I have this and forgot about it.
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Garth, thanks. This one is also in my library and about to be pulled out to read.
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02-21-2021, 02:11 PM | #27 | ||||||
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Stan, I believe the long barrel .410 Merkel was pictured in George Bird Evans' "Best of Nash Buckingham", don't know the page, but the pictures are on just a few separate pages. Probably not one of Nash's guns, no further information. No closeups of the engraving. Probably a dove gun owned by one of Nash's friends.
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Bill, I just ran this by the "Fact-checkers" over on FaceBook and they said your statement could be misleading, so I got my 1962 edition of "Minutes of the Lower Forty" and it turns out those fact-checkers know their stuff ()... The Parker .410 with full and full chokes with the semibeavertail fore end and single trigger belonged to Hentracks Hennessy. .
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02-21-2021, 04:03 PM | #29 | ||||||
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Let's not forget William G. (Bill) Tapply who was given Burton Spiller's 20ga Parker.
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I love Bill's telling of the story of Burt's non-ceremonial passing of his Parker to young Bill. In one of our several communications, when I was editor and shortly before he died, he gave me written permission to use that story, exactly as he wrote it or in any form I chose, and use it or publish it as I saw fit. To date I have not done so. .
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