A.W. du Bray's great grandson

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

Any idea why 95,000 & 94520 are listed as 12ga. guns in the serialization book?

Edgar, in Dave's article he lists 95000 as a possibly rebarreled 20 gauge and and 95420 as a 28 gauge ordered by Shoverling, Daly and Gales on Feb. 6, 1900.

The appearance of 94520 on the list was a keystroke error by me and has since been corrected.





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[Bill Murphy]

Dave did not list 95,000 as a possible rebarrel of a 20 gauge. He made the statement that 28 gauges between 94,000 and 95,000 were possible rebarrels. He did not list 94,000 or 95,000 as individual guns, only a range of serial numbers. By the way, my 97,032 is in the February 20, 1900 William Wagner order that includes the seventh through the tenth known 28 gauges. It is quite a nice VH, formerly owned by famous gun dealer and Parker collector Norman Strebe, shot on a regular basis. Norman's business was a mile or less from the William Wagner store.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Dave did not list 95,000 as a possible rebarrel of a 20 gauge. He made the statement that 28 gauges between 94,000 and 95,000 were possible rebarrels. He did not list 94,000 or 95,000 as individual guns, only a range of serial numbers.

Nit-picking Bill?...

If he had listed 9400X to 9500X I could agree with you but IMO where specific serial numbers are written then those two serial numbers are included in the range of guns that may possibly have been rebarreled to 28 gauge.

No offense intended my friend.





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[David Noble]

Apparently, (and obviously) Mr. Sexson's only interest in coming to this forum was to establish a value and sell the Grade 7 gun. Admittedly, his first post spoke to that intention.
I think it a bit rude that he never followed up on the forum to post pictures or update those that took an interest and offered help. After the sale of the firearm he could have updated the forum and thanked all that helped.
I wonder if the gun sold through Josh or if it went to an auction house.
Dean, I'm going to go through my back issues of Parker Pages to see your story and pictures of the gun.