Buttplate blued or colored?

[Jerry Andrews]

I bought a really decent underlever hammer Parker. Yes, thanks guys for getting me into these but man the quality of these old guns is just so outstanding! Anyway, it's been recolored, very nice job, rebrowned, very bad job, as I think it should have been redone to bring out the colors such as what Brad B did on Mark O's guns. The buttplate however was recolored also. Needless to say it's steel. Should this plate have been blued or would it have been case colored? This gun was tightened up by someone who did an outstanding job on the metal works. Just wondered about this plate. Jerry

[Bruce Day]

Jerry, check TPS. Going on memory its nitre blued. I know its nitre bluing in the hammerless guns. I take it you are aware that regular DuLite bluing wouldn't replicate nitre bluing?

There are a number of us who wish that Parker would have made a hammerless underlifter action. The underlifters were cataloged with the top lever hammers until the 1900's but the market demanded top levers, so an underlifter after 1900 is rare indeed.

[Autumn Daze]

Jerry, Solid steel butt plates on lifter guns were blued.

[Jerry Andrews]

Thanks much, guess this one will be part of a partial restoration/modification. The barrels really need redone. The rib is smooth on this gun, no squigglies and no dolls head. Jerry

[Dean Romig]

I have a picture of an early lifter's steel buttplate with some remaining blueing I'll post later.

[Dean Romig]

Typical smooth rib and lack of doll's head of the early ones.

[Jerry Andrews]

Thanks for the help guys, much appreciated. Jerry

[Dean Romig]

Here's the solid steel buttplate I referred to earlier today.

It is on ser. no. B2505 which is also featured on page 234 of The Parker Story.



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[winplumber]

Can I have them there screws ?

[Dean Romig]

Sure, but you'll have to buy the gun to get them....