need help with id of parker gun

[Dean Romig]

Bill, in my opinion the stock checkering is not a match to that of the forend and the drop point is quite unlike the ones seen on most Parker guns.
The stock looks like a Parker stock but taken from a lower grade and the drop points chiseled from a non-drop point stock.

[Double Play]

Dean,
I also noticed this stock has a SSBP were as most of the very early guns I have seen had the full steel butt plate. Do we know when Parker first used the SSBP?

[Autumn Daze]

Great question Larry. Parker started using the DHBP on hammerguns about 1879. I am almost sure that Skeleton Butt Plates on high grade hammerguns predated that. Exactly when I have no idea. Good catagory for "Parkers Found"?

Edited: After consulting TPS the authors commented that the Skeleton Butt plate was offered on guns of Grade3 or higher since day one. They noted guns with 3 digit serial numbers have been seen with SSBP.

[Double Play]

Originally Posted by Larry Frey

Dean,
I also noticed this stock has a SSBP were as most of the very early guns I have seen had the full steel butt plate. Do we know when Parker first used the SSBP?

I must correct this earlier post. I checked 3251 when I got home and it indeed does wear a SSBP. That's what I get going from memory, but I don't have to explain that to this crew.