Peter Johnson's Parker book came out in 1961 and I got a copy for Christmas that year. Larry Baer's Parker books were published in 1974 & 1976 and the combined version in 1980. The Parker Gun Collectors Association was founded in 1993, the brainchild of Forrest Marshall & Ron Kirby. The first issue of Parker Pages was Jan/Feb 1994.

In my family American doubles were the favored shotguns. My grandfather shot a Parker, my father shot Remington doubles and a Parker, and my Uncle Larry shot a Fox-Sterlingworth that his father-in-law, my grandfather's best buddy, bought new in 1930.