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Recently purchased Parker 74042, which was not in the serialization book, and the seller was unwilling to hold the gun until I obtained a letter.
Got the gun in hand Saturday, GH, D4 Damascus, 0 frame,16 bore, with 28” barrels, Lyman front sight, and what appears to be a period correct SSBP, installed on a G grade stock, choked CYL and MOD. I ordered the letter online Saturday, and got it TODAY!!!
The gun perfectly matches the letter, and apparently was owned and shot by US. Congressman E. Hart Fenn of CT. Member Fenn sent the gun back to Parker in 1900, to have a new G grade stock added with a SSBT.
The gun matches perfectly, with nothing but modest wear.
I am extremely happy to be this guns current caretaker.
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The Following 22 Users Say Thank You to Mark Ray For Your Post:
What a great little gun. Is it on an 0 frame or a 1 frame? Those 28" cyl/mod barrels are the perfect upland combo in my opinion. I have 2 Parkers ordered that way, a VH 20 and a DHE 16, both with 26" barrels. To have a GH 20 to go along with it is really cool.
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The Honorable Mr. Fenn obviously knew a bird gun when he saw it. What a great find, Mark.
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What a great little gun. Is it on an 0 frame or a 1 frame? Those 28" cyl/mod barrels are the perfect upland combo in my opinion. I have 2 Parkers ordered that way, a VH 20 and a DHE 16, both with 26" barrels. To have a GH 20 to go along with it is really cool.
It is an 0 frame
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Fenn is a very prominent name in CT, and specifically Wethersfield CT. The house where he lived is even more famous; The Silas Deane House. Fenn was the Fish & Game Commissioner before being elected to Congress. He is related to (in a fashion which strains my memory) to the co-founder of the Taylor & Fenn Co., now in Windsor, but originally in Hartford. Taylor and Fenn were my grandfather's, and father's principal competitors in the iron business, though we got out of iron in 1972.
Fenn must have had some influence on my father, because my grandparents lived immediately next door to them.
Andrus & Naedel was a well known sporting goods company in Hartford. Their name is on a label sewn into my father's college baseball mitt. They eventually became Gray's Sporting goods.
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