Flat Rib
I have a Parker DH with a flat rib. I have not seen another flat rib but did see a reference to one. How rare is the flat rib and does it affect the collectibality and/or value of the gun?
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Dave, I have a flat rib CH 1901 and have not seen more than one or two flat rib guns in the last couple years. Post a couple of pictures if you get a chance.
Bob |
Flat Rib
Bob,
Thanks, I will try to do that tomorrow. Dave |
I know of a DHE 20 flat rib gun with 32 in barrels. :)
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Thanks Richard. There seem to be not very many!!
Dave Miller |
I tried to upload pictures of the DH Flat Rib to this post but was unable to do that.
David Miller |
I don't think a flat rib adds much value to a Parker but is is another interesting feature usually found on target style Parkers. Most of the time the feature goes un-noticed. A friend of mine has a BHE and a DHE both 32" 12 gauges with flat ribs. There are 2 variations I have seen on these ribs, one with a basic placement vis a vis the muzzles similar to the normal concave rib and the other where the rib end in lowered well into the muzzles creating a higher shooting set of barrels. Flat ribs are often called "pigeon ribs" and are found commonly on British pigeons guns with a "file cut" ribs. BTW,the latter term refers to the look of the rib (it looks like a file) rather than by what tooling was used to matte it. My 1893 Purdey 2 barrel set "pigeon gun" has flat,"file cut" ribs on both of its barrel set.
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Thanks Don, do you have any idea how many of the flat ribs were made?
Mine does appear to be positioned very much like my other concave ribs. Dave Miller |
No, I don't but not that many.
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Dave, try emailing pics. to yourself and they will get resized for you, then save them and try down loading them.
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