Clark Gable's A-1 Special
In 1984 I took an 1913 Family owned Trojan 20 ga that was owned by a friend to Ottis Odom in Sycamore Ga for him to send off to the DelGrego family for repair. Not knowing Mr. Odom, we had to have someone that was his friend to certify that we were OK before he would see us. We at the time did not know what we were in for as far as seeing fine Parkers. All I can say is there were between 100 to 150 Parkers and other fine collectibles in a special room that he had displayed. He showed us all the fine guns and wanted us to handle them all. He picked up an A-1 Special and said it had belonged to Clark Gable. It was a beautiful gun, but as I said we didn't at the time appreciate all we were looking at. He said at the time that he had more Parkers that were collectible than anyone else.
Another friend told me that he was the best and biggest customer of the DelGrego family and was responsible for a lot of the restoration of fine Parkers.
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