Parker Skeet Originality

[Erick Hodge]

I would like some help checking authenticity and originality of a 16 ga Parker Skeet gun (#1frame) SN 240671. I would also like to know how many were manufactured.
Thank you!

[Erick Hodge]

More pictures of VH skeet gun

[Eldon Goddard]

Book says 16 gauge 26'' ejectors, single trigger, and capped pistol grip

[Dean Romig]

Hello Erick. I've looked at that gun time and time again but couldn't get past the repaired stock head split.
The right stock man can make that all disappear and make it look like it was never damaged.... but it absolutely has to be the right man.

Did you buy it? Congratulations if you did.




**Edited after reconsideration**

[Opening Day]

Very nice gun but I am going to have to disagree with Dean, the colors do not look right to me that's just my opinion. I do agree with Dean get the stock fixed by someone who knows what they are doing.

[Dean Romig]

Eric, you're the Parker skeet gun expert - from your experience what method of color case hardening was Remington using in 1937?

I know the Serialization book shows a capped pistol grip but sometimes I shrug off what the book says about the type of grip a gun has.

I suppose it could be DelGrego work but I'll need to be convinced by some kind of evidence.

[Dean Romig]

Okay, I'm backing off my original opinion.

For that amount of color the engraved borders on the frame should be absolutely crisp and sharp. That engraving appears to have been lightly buffed. I was able to see that by enlarging the picture.

Of course, without the gun in hand, opinions are just that.

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Okay, I'm backing off my original opinion.

For that amount of color the engraved borders on the frame should be absolutely crisp and sharp. That engraving appears to have been lightly buffed. I was able to see that by enlarging the picture.

Of course, without the gun in hand, opinions are just that.

It's a very nice gun and the fact that the book says capped pistol grip means little to me. It's just what you said about the engraving and the look of the colors that just jump out at me. If the gun was in my hand that might be totally different and I would have a different idea.

[J.B. Books]

In several of the pictures I can see a well defined line on both sides of the receiver, it runs from the bottom of the breech ball to the stock. Lawrence DelGrego showed this to me on a gun in his shop and told me that line is deliberate and it indicates their shop had recased the gun in the past.

[Eldon Goddard]

I probably should have said that the book has been wrong before, but I don't have the knowledge to make the call either way just wanted to tell him what the book said.