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08-11-2011, 09:41 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Most of the markings are English proof marks significating that the gun would withstand being shot. Google English Proof Marks and you'll get a directory of what they mean. It's probably an English gun, not a Parker Bros Parker. The barrels probably are damascus, just well worn (or someone has blued over them).
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08-28-2011, 03:14 PM | #4 | ||||||
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If this gun weren't an E. D. Parker, why does it have a matching serial # on the Parker website?
When you say 'cutoff barrels', do you mean that literally? They aren't cutoff, they are made this way?? |
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08-28-2011, 07:58 PM | #5 | ||||||
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I did not mean to come across as sounding not nice. I am asking because I do want the info and I am not messing with anyone......promise!!!
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08-28-2011, 10:46 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Mr. jlosbourne,
The gentlemen who responded to your original post have been collecting and shooting shotguns (made by Parker Bros. in Meriden, CT and later, Parker shotguns by Remington in Ilion, NY) for many years and do indeed know their Parker shotguns. Yours is, as has been stated, not one of the Parkers made in America. Yours was made in Britain or Belgium and was likely shipped here (in numbers) in the hope that the importer could capitalize on the good name of Parker Bros. The fact that the serial number appears in the "Serialization Book" is nothing more than coincidence. I could make up a five or six digit number and in all likelihood that number might also appear in the book. Yours might be in nice condition but you would be advised not to attempt to shoot it without first having a qualified gunsmith, extremely well versed in old European doubles, examine it for safe shooting. Enjoy it for what it is but know it is not a Parker Bros. shotgun - the object of our affection. |
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08-29-2011, 05:05 PM | #7 | ||||||
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Thank you for your kind response! Would you have any idea's about the value of the gun I have?
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08-29-2011, 05:24 PM | #8 | ||||||
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Here is one http://www.gundersonmilitaria.com/sh...nglandGmG.html for $275. That may be a bit high for the condition IMHO.
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