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Unread 01-18-2019, 04:53 PM   #1
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Default Latest Fishtail lever - Revisited

TPS states that the fishtail lever was used intermittently on parker Hammerless guns until about 1892. And I have seen several in the early years of hammerless production.

In searching the forum on the topic, there was a previous thread asking about the latest Fishtail lever. Two members said they had guns made in 1905 (130,000 range) that had them.

Does anyone else have an example of one even later than '05?


Dean mentioned seeing a BH before with one. Anyone else seen a higher grade gun with one? like an A or AA? Or even A-1? The A-1 was introduced in 1904, so, if there are a few examples in 1905, then I guess it could be plausible.
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Brian... I have seen two A grades made in the mid 1890’s with the fishtail lever.
One was a 12 and the other a 16 gauge. 😊
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I’ve got seven hammer guns all made between 1881 and 1886 but only one has a fishtail . And that’s the 1886 gun . My only other fishtail is a circa 1892 GH . I kinda thought it a little strange the older ones didn’t have the fishtail lever . By that I mean the ones in my “accumulation” .
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I am new to the Parker forum and relatively new to Parkers in General and this will be my first post. I picked up an 1892 vintage 16 gauge GH on an 0 frame today and it has a fishtail lever on it. It took me a short bit of web search to find this was a factory lever and not something that had been altered.

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Thanks for posting Roger. Enjoy your Parker. It sounds like a great vintage and configuration.
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Welcome to the forum Roger.

Your GH sounds like a good one. Can we see some pictures of it?





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66,xxx BH Dam5 with Fishtail
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Seems most were in the 66,000 serial number range to early 70,000's.
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Welcome to the forum Roger.

Your GH sounds like a good one. Can we see some pictures of it?





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Dean, this is only my 2nd Parker my other is a VH 20 gauge made in 1904. When i figure out how to post pics i will post pics of both. Thanks
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Seems most were in the 66,000 serial number range to early 70,000's.

The GH 16 gauge that i mentioned above is in the 71k range.
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