Grandma's Gun and Her Sister

[Bindlestiff]

Look in the 2009 issue 2 for the article "Early 28 Gauge Parkers" on page 49.

To find this I went to "parkerguns.org" then to "Parker Pages" and clicked on the "Parker Pages Index" and searched ("ctrl f" to get search box) for "early 28" and there it is.

[Autumn Daze]

Bill, Thank you so much for the additional info. Now I kinda wish we had this conversation while I was putting the article together. The article was born out of the "What was the earliest 28 gauge serial numbers" if I remember right. But I think an article on "Uncle Billy" would be well recieved. Are you and Kevin working on anything? If I can be of help just ask...

[Bill Murphy]

For those of you who use google earth and other streetscape research tools, Uncle Billys store was established in 1877 and was, and is, at 207 1/2 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C. A short description of the Wagner business is included in "Historical Sketches of the Capital City of our Country" an 1878 book by John P. Coffin.

[Bill Murphy]

I googled "william wagner historical sketches john coffin" and got the page reference to the long paragraph describing Wagner's business. By the way, Peter Johnson described a business on Pennsylvania Avenue on Capitol Hill in his book, but did not describe Wagner Hardware by name. I would be interested to know whom Johnson interviewed to come up with that obscure piece of information. The Parker records were not available to him and only a very few William Wagner orders included his street address.

[Researcher]

The other gent in the picture with Kevin is not me, I was taking the picture. The guy with the other gun was from the Burgh.

Dave