Unusual Checkering
 

Of course this is a AAHE so we can expect the unusual but I have never seen another example of this kind of panel checkering. Has anyone else seen this particular design?

This is a twenty gauge with 26" Whitworth barrels and is shown in the Ser. & I.D. book as a Grade 8 but the water table is stamped 7 & AAH, Ser. No. 175048



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Grading
 

This is the same serial range as the Czar gun. There were some price changes at that time that make it difficult to determine if a gun is an A 1 or AA from the price in the order book.
Pretty nice incised carving; I would consider it a plus in any case.

Best, Austin

Copied from Francotte
 

Dean,

This particular treatment is an exact copy of the side panels on many Francotte boxlock shotguns imported by Von Lengerke & Detmold prior to 1910. It was known as a "scalloped and checkered sidelock-shaped side panel". Here is a photo of an image from an original salesman's display card of the period which I have annotated for current owners requesting information or indentification of models.

http://pic80.picturetrail.com/VOL213.../385770963.jpg

Bob Beach
Griffin & Howe, Inc

Parker 175048 at A&F
 

Dean,

Just on the chance that the customer who would copy a beautiful VL&D Francotte may have actually ordered it there, I checked the serial number against the G&H database. Unfortunately, it was not ordered at VL&D but it was sold as a consigned gun at Abercrombie & Fitch in 1935.

http://pic80.picturetrail.com/VOL213.../385771548.jpg

The above is a partial photo of the inventory book entry. Reading left to right, it idicates that the gun was received on May 28, 1935, 20 gauge, 26 inch bbls, weight of 5 lbs, 14 oz, ejector gun, choked IC - Mod, D@H - 2 7/8, D@C - 1 7/16, LOP - 14 5/8, 1/2 pistol grip, model AAHE.

Bob Beach
Griffin & Howe, Inc

Bob, you are better man then me if you can read that.....:shock:

Bob, as always you continue to provide pertinent and accurate information on the guns you have records of. Thank you so much for your kind generosity of the information you have posted on Parker 175048. What a sweet gun! If it were mine I would surely be tempted to take it into the grouse coverts . . . at least once.

Dean

Eric,

It gets easier after the first 5000 pages.

Bob Beach

Bob, we found the same to be true after about Tuesday of the week we copied the Parker records in 1998. By lunch time Tuesday, we understood enough of what we were reading to discuss it over a BLT. For the next 12 years, it's been about all I want to talk about.

Robert,

Any relation to our beloved Captain Ned Beach?

Kindest, Harry

Harry,

Not to my knowledge.

Bob