Laminated barrels on early Lifter

[ArtS]

There is a well used but much better one on Gunbroker that ends Sunday night. I have been watching it for a weekand emailed the owner two or three times. It is a grade two, with nice wood, that needs a refinish, worn engraving but a nice pattern. He said 1883, but the serial number shows 1881. Don't know the source of his info. It has a pretty decent set of Parker laminate barrels in 10 gauge that are shown as 30" 12 gauge in the book. The pictures show 10 gauge snap caps in the chambers and they look like they fit properly.The P is definitely there and the pattern looks good. Unfortunately the barrels have been cut back to 29" and the gun has a threaded hole in the rear of the left sideplate which I have never seen.

If it were a 3 frame, I would buy it to get the barrels to cut down and fit on my 1880 grade three, but it is only a 2 frame gun and mine is a 3. I have too many projects going now, but it would be a good project gun to make a nice shooter. It looks solid enough and and I have heard no negative reports from the seller, who is not a Parker guy. I think the starting bid is $800 and Buy It Now is $1000. Not a great buy, but a really nice set of rare barrels. I it hadn't been cut, I would definitely have tried to buy it.