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Unread 08-19-2019, 08:13 PM   #1
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I'm a FFL/SOT and bought a few guns at an estate sale the other day one of them being a 10 gauge Parker I looked through the information on the site looks like the gun was built in 1874 but couldn't figure out the grade. Any help would be appreciated.
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Mr Douglas - Your Parker No. 3196 find is what dreams are made of - however, it is very beat up and abused and would take many thousands of dollars to bring it back to its former glory. A PGCA Research Letter ($100 for non-members) would give the "dollar quality" of your gun but to put it into more commonly used terms it would probably be a $250 or a $300 quality Parker. Later in production it would have been designated as a B grade (5) or an A grade (6) and at the time yours was produced there were no higher grades.

You're a very lucky guy to have found that one - there aren't many left.
Now the quandry - What to do with it???





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A great find! I can imagine you did very well on it. They are still out there and you never know where they will pop up.
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Kevin,

I'm in Lexington and would love to see you're Parker.

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I don't normally do this but a research letter will not tell you anything other than what you already know except that the records say it's a 12ga. gun, not a 10ga. gun. Other than it had Damascus barrels which means it's a higher grade, the records won't tell you the Dollar Grade of this gun. Obviously from the pictures it's probably a $250 Dollar Grade gun.
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Kevin,

I'm in Lexington and would love to see you're Parker.

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Harry
I'm about 100 miles south of Lexington just above the TN border. Let me know if you want to check it out sometime.
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Thanks for the info guys I bought it in a lot of 5 that no one wanted the Parker, a J Reynolds 12 gauge (figured both of them for wall hangers) a Stevens 5100 16 gauge and a coupe of cheap automatic pistols. I mostly deal in newer semi auto or class 3 stuff but try learn as I go.
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