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Offline art riser

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Louie Parker Pistol
« on: May 02, 2017, 03:14:34 PM »
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Offline Carl Young

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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2017, 07:07:41 PM »
Thanks for posting that Art. Beautiful work!
I had the pleasure of meeting Louie at the Alabama show and enjoyed every minute of our conversation.

-Carl
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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2017, 07:27:55 PM »
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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2017, 07:37:38 PM »
Louie is a very talented builder and top notch restorer, also great guy!
Dennis
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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2017, 12:56:31 AM »
Seeing this pistol at auction is certainly no pleasure.  As it belonged to a very good friend who died last fall.  Thanks for your comments......Louie Parker
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Offline Carl Young

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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2017, 08:34:27 PM »
Did one of the ALR boys buy Louie's pistol? The opening bid blew me out of contention.

-Carl
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Offline J. Talbert

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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2017, 05:31:50 AM »
Very impressive piece!

Louie,
Is it a copy of any particular maker or style?

Sorry for the circumstance of its coming to auction.

Jeff
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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2017, 05:57:14 AM »
Jeff

Its after the work of Wiley Higgins  who worked on Georgia. There are four known pistols by Wiley. I  used all four to design this pistol. I took a little of each and made one....Louie 
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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2017, 12:05:09 AM »
Thanks for the info Louie.
Are there any published pix of those four?

Jeff
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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2017, 01:05:54 AM »
Jeff

I don't know of a location where they are all shown together. These photos I gathered up from one place or another. One is in the Hermitage and is said to have been found there. another is in a museum somewhere in Texas, The one labeled Dumont collection in now in a New York collection. The one with the silver overlaid barrel I owned until a couple of  years ago. Higgins was a man who danced to his own drum. His work was copied a bit. But I think he did his own thing. Louie












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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2017, 08:13:44 PM »
Thanks for putting those together Louie.  Enjoyed seeing them.  Added them to my personal library.
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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2017, 11:45:27 PM »
Thanks Louie,

Those are great to see.

Your version certainly stacks up well amongst them.

Jeff
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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2017, 04:35:31 AM »
Louie, having had the opportunity to personally study a number of Wiley Higgins rifles and pistols, I sometimes wonder if you ever worked in his shop. Then I remind myself that you aren't THAT old.
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Re: Louie Parker Pistol
« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2017, 05:14:16 AM »
Wayne
I am dang near that old.   LP
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