Greg, I have no such preferred access to Parker records as you suggest. I pay my money and I read my letter. I know more about the process and the history of the record search than some only because I was a member of the original 1998 PGCA Research Team. I have no preferred access to the research file I helped to create. I have to send in checks just like everyone else. I find your last paragraph in the Jan 25 12:59 PM post to be distasteful and I will delete this paragraph if you will delete your paragraph. In fact, I have found several of your statements since that post to be incorrect and offensive also. I invite you to examine my research file which I obtained over fifty years of studying Parker shotguns, a file that I created at great expense and expenditure of time. The 1998 research team, with the exception of yours truly, has forgotten most of what they copied. You may claim that you also would have been willing to do it, but you have no idea how hard we worked at Ilion while our jobs at home went undone. The TPS researchers and the PGCA researchers did more for Parker collectors than anyone before or since. I have not published my personally obtained research information because I don't know how, but I have shared it without compensation whenever anyone has asked. If you consider what I am doing "gloating", you are sadly mistaken.
