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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
There was a supposedly real Parker Brothers trophy banging around the Allentown PA show for a few years. I was never able to get up enough nerve to pronounce it original. Maybe Tom Kidd or Kevin McCormack will remember it. I haven't seen it in five or six years at least.
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Yeah, Bill: I remember it well. It had a faux bronze base marked "Parker Bros. Meriden Ct.' with two pillars in the center of which was the statue of a shooter with a Parker like gun to his shoulder. The top piece was a faux bronze bridge with two finials that looked like miniature pineapples.
It was offered by none other than the venerable "Dr." Gerald Bullock of Greene, NY, a picturesque little village hard by the kennels from whence came my great old English Setter "Smoke", world's greatest grouse dog.
After we put the trophy "under the glass" at that show, it went undergound so to speak, and I (we) never saw it again. My guess is that it was a "project" piece, probably unbeknownst to the good Dr. Bullock. As I recall he provenanced it as having been aquired with "a bunch of other Parker 'stuff'. Over the years I had bought a few good shooting trophies from him; my best score being a 1912 Labor Day traphooting cup trophy from Millbrook NY, home of the Vintagers before it moved into our back yard at Pintail Point on the Eastern Shore of MD
I still lust after a vintage Philadelphia Gun Club trophy cup, after being aced out of a c. 1919 sample offered by our "Annie Oakley" buddy at the Old Baltimore Show years ago, after he got cold feet when I offered him his advertised price in full, saying he "needed to reseach it a little more", thinking he was "selling it too cheap", when someone was willing to pay full price. I'm sure that's what dealer's purgatory is for, the more I think about it!
03-31-2010, 03:18 PM
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