1898 lost gun report

[Gary Rennles]

This appeared in the Dec. 31st 1898 issue of the Sporting Life.
I cant help but wonder if it has ever been seen again.
That would be a Parker with some history!


A Lost Gun.
Mr. H. P. Collins, general agent of the
Du Pont Powder Co., Baltimore, Md.,
writes as follows:
"I beg to advise you of a loss which I
sustained on Dec. 17 of my titanic steel barrel
Parker gun, No. 89651, which occurred some
time or somewhere between the hours of 5
o'clock, when I left the Riverton Gun Club
grounds, and my reaching Baltimore at 10
o'clock the same evening. The gun and a
Powers cleaning rod being removed from the
case and bricks and stones substituted therefor
to make up the weight. Will you kindly make a
announcement of my loss in your next issue and
very greatly oblige."



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[PopPop]

We tend to think the folks in and 1898 were all hard working "salt of the earth" type of people. But, even then there were pieces of dog mess with which one had to deal.

I really hope someone out there has a follow up to this sad story, and a happy follow up.

PopPop

[Pa SxS]

Just checked, no letter was done on this gun.

[Dean Romig]

Some of you may remember the article in the Autumn 2012 Issue of Parker Pages, the one we call "The Austin Hogan Issue", of Major General Paul Cooper's A1-S double trap gun that was stolen and subsequently rediscovered many years later being used to shoot live pigeons in Europe. The General ultimately got his coveted Parker back after great expense and trouble. This one had a happy ending... most don't.

[Gary Rennles]

The gun was listed again in Sporting life vol. 33 Aug. 19th 1899
along with another gun.
The serial numbers were only 39 apart, wonder if they went together.



STOLEN GUN Parker. No. 89,651. Titanic
steel, 12. 30. 7 3/4. H. P. Collins, Baltimore, Md.
STOLEN GUN Parker Hammerless, No. 89690


After looking thru the Sporting Life I found a few stolen gun reports.
Looks like times back then were not that different.



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