Some Parkers, Tim, are indeed "Safe Queens" and ascribing the female gender to an item most commonly owned and used (or collected) by males may seem strange, as the tradition of referring to ships and sailing vessels as "She". But, in the case of Parker Bros., the top stock checkerer for many years was a lady named Mrs. Hanson (Hansen) I loaned my Peter Johnson Parker book to a friend, that's where I recall reading this fact. And ladies have also influenced shooting and our beloved Parkers, albiet in a segue: William Hardon Foster shot Parkers, and he was the 'inventor' of skeet-originally called 'shooting around the clock' I believe. In the early 1920's, I think it was Remington, sponsored a contest to name this new clays shopgun event, and a Mrs. Gertrude Hurlburt (Hurlbert)? from MN won- the used the Scandanavian word for 'shoot", that word being skeet.
