This highly regarded work is based upon the surviving Parker Brothers stock books and order books, the largest collection of Parker gun catalogs available, a significant collection of Parker ephemera and other items made by the Charles Parker Company, and tapes of interviews by Louis Parker III with the late Charlie Parker, last president of the Charles Parker Company. This title is not available at the Library of Congress.
Links to online resources are included when available. The following materials link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Often the choice of celebrities and competition shooter, Parker guns are considered the finest and most collectible American shotguns. Between 18 Parker produced 242,000 guns at various price points, most of which were shotguns. for Charles Parker." Meanwhile, in 1868 Charles and his sons Wilbur, Charles, and Dexter had started The Parker Brothers Gun Company, which continued as an independent company until 1934 when it was purchased by the Remington Arms Company. The estimated 700 shotguns it produced were marked “Made by the Meriden Man’f Co. By 1869, Charles Parker had become the sole owner of the company, then called the Meriden Manufacturing Company. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.ĭuring the Civil War, Charles Parker was a stockholder and the superintendent of Parker, Snow, Brooks and Company, which was under Union contract to produce 10,000 repeating rifles and 15,000 Springfield rifles. Du Pont smokeless shotgun powder - the standard of the world.
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