If you have to find suitable donor barrels, which would normally be worth $800 or close, the back end of a pre-1900 GH should sell for about $400 or less. Remember, even with a good set of barrels, the end result will be a mismatched gun.

If you have to procure a good set of 32” or even 30” Damascus barrels (in keeping with how the gun left Meriden) and then have them properly fitted to the gun, I estimate it’s current value to be about $800.





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Dean, are you estimating value of the whole gun after fitting new barrels or the "half gun" as it is at present? I assume you are estimating the "half gun" at $800.

Half gun Bill.





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Buy it and look for another set of barrels. That floor plate engraving is too good to pass up. I wonder if a PGCA letter would shed any light? Anyone ever seen that engraving on another Parker?

It took about 10 minutes to engrave that tree. Could have been an ‘end of the day’ gun.

But it would be nice if the letter addressed it.





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You have to remember that the guns were built by men. And my guess would be that someone inadvertently cut too large of a circle on it and then needed to fill the space with something other than more turnips.

I went back to the Pawn shop today and got a few more pictures. All the wood and checkering looks good and the side panels of the receiver are normal GH engraving. I did ask the owner of the shop to find out if the older gentleman (reportedly in his 90's) might have any more Parkers that he wanted to sell.

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Unless you're all hung up on originality, You could have a pretty nice gun for short money. Someone like Dave Fjelline could strike those barrels at the breech end to look factory, and he has people to re-engrave the wedding rings and properly blue them. You wouldn't have a lot invested in an unusual gun and you could be proud you saved one. There are a lot of mildly messed-with guns out there that get overlooked because people are too hung up on the end game.