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12-30-2009, 11:16 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Ed; That is a beautiful gun ,it appears to have very nice wood ! And beautiful engraving !Congrats on a nice project !!
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12-30-2009, 11:17 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Both of my parkers without a doll's head have a blank fitted to the doll's head space.
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12-30-2009, 11:22 PM | #5 | ||||||
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Ahah!! So that's how they did it. Are they both Meriden guns? I don't recall ever hearing about any Ilion guns made without the doll's head.
So Jeff, is this how they were made - all Parker doubles were cast or mortised at the factory for a doll's head, regardless if a customer ordered one with no extension? |
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12-31-2009, 12:20 AM | #6 | ||||||
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Love that engraving - a good one, indeed.
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12-31-2009, 09:02 AM | #7 | ||||||
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Dean - I think the extension was repaired. Someone probably dropped the barrels. The gun is circa 1915 before BT forends and the big loop was probably fitted later, but who knows. The trigger is a second generation Parker.
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12-31-2009, 09:13 AM | #8 | ||||||
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Ed,Very very nice! Congratulations..
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"Much care is bestowed to make it what the Sportsman needs-a good gun"-Charles Parker |
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12-31-2009, 09:26 AM | #9 | ||||||
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Dean,
I dug into to back of the safe to find these guns. It shows up on the 20 ga. Vh better than the Dh. 20 ga is 126522 and 12 D is 97141. The safety slot is also plugged and engraved over to hide it. |
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12-31-2009, 09:48 AM | #10 | ||||||
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Thanks Jeff. As expected, those were very nicely done - obviously at Meriden.
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