Guns Have Stories

Old Blood and Guts’ Parker

If Guns Could Talk …

By Tom Keer, gunsmagazine.com

(Cover photo) To hold a little bit of history, visit Hunt Valley, Maryland’s Highland Sporting Outfitters. There, Alessandro Vitale has General George S. Patton, Jr.’s Parker pheasant gun on display.

A gun’s provenance does much more than simply add value by providing technical details such as the date and place of manufacturing and important specifications. Provenance can add an unparalleled texture to a firearm by offering insights and stories about the man who owned it as well as notable events in which it was used.

Davy Crockett’s Old Betsy could tell some stories as could Daniel Boone’s Old Tick Licker, and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Lucrezia Borgia. In case you were wondering, Borgia was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI. Then there is Nash Buckingham’s Super Fox Bo Whoop which was once lost and then found and ultimately auctioned for nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

Some of us are still looking for King Arthur’s Excalibur, and while we’re looking we might as well spend some time with an important shotgun on display in the mid-Atlantic.

Alessandro Vitale, the CEO of Hunt Valley, Maryland’s Highland Sporting Outfitters, FINISH READING HERE

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