Family Heirloom - Parker DH?

[winplumber]

Is it me or the picture but does the barrel lug and hook and ejectors look like they have been blued ?

[TxHuntermn]

Holy Smokes......that is one nice gun....i couldnt own it because i could not make myself shoot it!!!!!

[Brett Hoop]

Nathan
Nice Parker. HT - thought to be heat treating. J.G - barrel inspector. 4/4 raw barrel weight. The 3 on the frame under serial number - Grade 3 and it has ejectors instead of extractors thus a DHE
34” barrels - desirable long barrels, we get a little giddy over this length of barrels because there weren’t that many of them to begin with and fewer survivors it seems. And they provide a longer sighting plan that may or may not be an advantage particularly at the clay target games some of us like to play. And the they are just cool. Straight gripped guns always draw attention as it seems there were fewer of those originally produced also. Yours has nice looking walnut. The squished pad tells us it’s been there a long time.

Do yourself a favor and join and become a member- it saves money on the letter you should look into obtaining. And the quarterly magazine Parker Pages is very well done and always informative .

Although there are many very knowledgeable ( much much more so than, I) folks here that can tell you some of the details. I would be writing down everything your family can tell you about their history with the gun because that knowledge can be lost so quickly and maybe the most valuable part of any heirloom.

[Jeff K.]

You boys all need to take a cold shower to cool down. I know I did!

[Researcher]

I believe this is a hammerless Parker DH Grade 3, with a Titanic Steel barrel, manufactured in 1925. I don't know what the T with the circle, the HT A in the triangle pattern, the 4 superscript 4, the J.G. in the circle, or the 12, 2, or 3 markings mean. Picture of all the important parts are below.

The gun is a Quality DHE, which is also known as a Grade 3.

The T in the circle is the barrel steel type marking -- Titanic

The 3 near the rear of the right barrel flat is the grade as is the 3 under the serial number on the watertable.

The J.G. in the oval is the mark of James Geary contractor/foreman of the barrel making department.

The 4 superscript 4 is the weight of the unfinished barrel set.

No one is really sure about the HTA, but speculation is High Tensile Alloy or Heat Treated Annealed.

The 2 on the barrel lug is the frame size -- the number of sixteenths over one inch of the center-to-center firing pin spacing. In this case 1 2/16 inch or 1 1/8 inch. If the other marks on the bottom of the barrel lug are 12 (I can't make them out in the picture) that is the gauge of the gun.

[Dean Romig]

A beautiful Parker!

I sure hope you find the #2 barrels and forend.
That gun sure has been kept well - look at those colors!





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[Battue]

Very nice...Thanks for the post....

As far as shooting it, it may be a little tippy....but I would make a good effort in working it out...May be a great Sporting Clay SxS shotgun...

[Keavin Nelson]

What a great start to a Parker collection, you could look quite awhile to find one as good original condition! Very nice!

[Dean Romig]

Guns of that level of original condition are in the finest collections.





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[Researcher]

Looks to me like those barrels were reblued with the blue on the lug and ejectors.