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chamookman:
You Guys are really taking Me back. Loved the Herters Catalog - would wear them out leafing thru them ! Still have a Burnams Brothers Fox call I ordered out of Fur-Fish & Game some 50 Years ago - still going. Use it sometimes with My FoxPro calling Coyotes. Bob

Buffalogobbler:
JEB,
What you have is called a scratch box and yes it should have a striker, a lot of times old timers would sand a bare spot on the side of their gun stock and rub the call on the bare spot to work it.

PAUL,
Perdue calls are extremely sought after, the duck calls always sell at auction for many hundreds of dollars. The crow calls are very sought after also and I'd bet your crow call is worth some bucks no matter what condition.

Kevin

Eric Krewson:
Another catalog I got was a Bannerman's catalog, they had so much stuff, all vintage military from huge cannons to racked walls full of 18 and early 19th centaury muskets. Everything Napoleon's army might take to war they had for sale.

As a kid I didn't realize all the stuff was for sale and thought the catalog was more of a reference guide. One time I asked them where I could by the item on page 12 and they said "from us", then I knew.

I don't remember the prices but think an original Brown Bess in good shape could be had for less than $50. If I had only known what they would have been worth down the road.... but then again I only had a paper route and one could buy a drivable car for $50 at that time.

PaulN/KS:

--- Quote from: Buffalogobbler on January 04, 2021, 02:24:42 pm ---PAUL,
Perdue calls are extremely sought after, the duck calls always sell at auction for many hundreds of dollars. The crow calls are very sought after also and I'd bet your crow call is worth some bucks no matter what condition.

Kevin

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I did not know that... ??? Might have to look into that in the near future.
Thanks.  :OK

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