1881 12G - Need help w grade & value
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My uncle passed on to me a Parker 12G SxS hammer gun. I was able to identify this about the gun, but the grading is too confusing. Can anyone help by providing more information, especially about the grade and possible value?
• Serial #24296. • Date of Manufacture: 1881 (serial number range 20289 through 24304). • Top Lever Shotgun. • Stamped Genuine Laminated Steel on barrel rib (estimated production of 2,682). • Frame size stamped on barrel lug is 3 (10,12,16 frames). • Barrel weight is not stamped on the flat. • Left barrel is stamped 'CHOKE BORED'. |
This is not a Parker Brothers (of Meriden, CT) shotgun. It is a imported “knockoff” as they call them.
Looks like a T Parker on the plate? It is not worth much. Maybe $100-200 These are generally considered as wall hangers due to their relatively poor quality of manufacture. Most are real rattle traps today. |
Brian is correct
I can only see one in the posted picture, but if you look at the proof marks on the under side of the barrel and google “Belgium proof marks”. I think you will find they match |
Dennis: It is a Crescent Model 2 made about 1898 and sold by Sears.
The barrels are Twist. https://docs.google.com/document/pub...iu5JGIhfguSXXQ Sears sold other Parker knock-off variants; some by Crescent and some from Belgium http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL.../293688561.jpg The gun was not of high quality when new 120 years ago, and I would suggest cleaning the external surfaces and hanging it in a place of honor in your home. |
T PARKER NEW YORK is not a Parker Bros. shotgun, the subject of this organization.
At first glance I thought the gun was one of the cheap Belgian guns that flooded the world from the 1880s to WW-I. But with no proof marks on the barrel flats and watertable it may be a cheap North American made gun built to compete with the cheap Belgian imports after the McKinley tariffs were in place. I have no pictures in my files of a Crescent Fire Arms Co. hammer gun with that style top-lever and the Purdey-style double underbolts of the gun in question. |
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Parker G 1881, 12 ga 1 frame , 28”. 7 lbs, open choked
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Thank you all for the quick response and information. Much appreciated.
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Hard to read, but I have this listed as T. Barker New York and it appears to be the same gun
http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL.../367227315.jpg The OP's gun looks to have a J spring 'pull off' FE rather than the later Crescent "Deeley & Edge" FE attachment Crescent "American Gun Co. New York" and I believe the same gun http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL.../338249503.jpg |
Even more confusion. This is the T. Barker listing in the 1902 Sears catalog, but the engraving is clearly T. Parker.
http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL.../414455248.jpg "Royal Damascus Finish" would be Faux Damascus. Again, the OPs gun has no proof marks so is not Belgian. |
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