Parker gun shield

[Jean Swanson]

Parker Brothers inlaid a silver or gold shield into the butt stocks of all grades , other than Trojans with none. So here is the question !!
If a person wanted his/her initials engraved on the shield, how would you know the arrangement of first name, middle name & last name as engraved on the shield.
Example---Allan Harry Swanson----would it be AHS or ASH. What would tell the difference in the arrangement??

Example please.

Allan

[B. Dudley]

Monograming is sort of a lost art today and figure there has to be a rule to how the letters are arranged and sized. (at least with an interwoven monogram).

I know that the Last initial would a lot of times be in the middle if the letters are all side by side (ie: ASH in your case). And usually the middle letter (for last name) would be slightly larger.

Some of the old world interwoven monograms can be a struggle to decipher the letters let alone speculate on the order of them.


I suppose if you were wanting your own gun engraved with your initials, the answer would be however YOU want it to be.

[OH Osthaus]

my understanding of traditional mongram etiquette is the the middle letter in larger and represents the last/family name - then first on the left, middle on the right

none of my shields are engraved - I guess you would need an example that letters to the original buyer to see how Parker did it

[Dean Romig]

.....ASH





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[Jean Swanson]

What if you never paid attention before, you have a gun with no references to the owners or PGCA records. My gun just has the three equal size initials. What comes first ,the chicken or the egg ??

I agree if one of the letters is larger& in the middle---most likely the family name.
Allan

[Researcher]

As long as we are on the monogram subject, any thoughts on these letters from a DEO-Grade Remington --

P132280 13 DEO-Grade 16-ga shield cropped.jpg

[Dean Romig]

Dave, I'm going with E F G


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[TxHuntermn]

In general...if all letters same size, first, middle, last.
As Mr. Dudley says, if middle letter larger it is first last middle.

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Allan H. Swanson

What if you never paid attention before, you have a gun with no references to the owners or PGCA records. My gun just has the three equal size initials. What comes first ,the chicken or the egg ??

I agree if one of the letters is larger& in the middle---most likely the family name.
Allan

I assumed you did not have an example - but I mention it because I bet more than one member does - so we just need them to share

[Dean Romig]

Here's one that was ordered by Henry A. Bishop for his wife Jessie Alvord Bishop.

Double or triple click for best enlargement.


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