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Recent RIA auction catalog shows a golden 20 bore O/U Clark gave his wife Carole in 1940.. Wow- but would you ever take such a item afield?RWTF


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At a gun show a number of years ago, I saw a gun she gave to him. Stretching my memory here, but I believe it was a Parker CHE. Not sure of the gauge, but I think a smallbore.

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He also gave Carol Lombard for their wedding gift in 1939 a 20 ga. L.C. Smith Crown Grade. One of our members owned or still owns it.


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It was a CHE 28 gauge- wonder who owns it now. Most likely Clark was a steady customer of Alex Kerr Gun Shop- ditto Gary Cooper.


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Quite often Carole was pictured shooting Cutts Compensator equipped Remington shotguns. Sportsman --



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One of the images that appeared in Researcher's Life magazine collage; Lombard and Harry Fleischmann at the Santa Monica Gun Club, 1938



Gable had a BHE 32" barrel with BTFE 28g SN 201993 shipped 6-13-23 (obviously purchase later), a 32" BHE 20g, a DHE given him by Joan Bennett, and a VR A-1 Special purchased at the New York Sportsman's Show, from the Remington rep Cliff Baldwin, after the NYC premier of Gone With the Wind Dec. 19, 1939. He later gave the A-1 to Gary Cooper.
He also had a 20g CHE 2 barrel set
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=13455
One of his Parkers is in the Clark Gable Museum Cadiz, Ohio.

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I believe the DHE Joan gave him was a 20 gauge. Ive seen it twice. A very nice little Skeet configured gun.

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Thank you Dean. Did any of his 20s have a straight stock?
Undated photo of Gable and Cooper at Sun Valley with the Parker A-1 Special leaning against car.



October 1955 "Guns" magazine with BTFE PG 20g with what appears to be a cheekpiece?



Cooper with Gable's, now his A1 Special



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Found the newspaper copy regarding the trip to S.D. October, 1941
Gable's 12g double was not IDd



Better image and it looks to have a BTFE


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Gable shot numerous times at Delta Marsh in Manitoba. Stayed at Jimmy Robinson's Sportman's Lodge and hunted very near to where my place is. My neighbours (back in the 1960's) managed the lodge in the 30's and 40's and their home was lined with photos of them with the stars of Hollywood who liked to hunt. The ones I remember best were Gable, Bogart and Rod Taylor but there were tons of others. I was too young at the time to really understand what I was seeing.


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