The highest condition Parker I have ever had the pleasure of being custodian of is this 1893 16 gauge Grade-1 TL hammer gun on the lightened 0-Frame with Laminated Steel barrels.
It went down the road about 2015. It was fun to be the caretaker of it and to show and display it (I never shot it and I would be very surprised to learn it ever had been fired except test firing at that "dusty little pland down in Meriden") but nothing is forever.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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