Parker Display
 

For the last couple years I have been considering building a gun room to display my favorite doubles. However, the cost and the thought of wanting them near me where the family spends time made me consider creating a replica antique case for display. This is what I came up with. I did not build the case, I commissioned it with a builder. How do you display yours?

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Dean,
That is a beautiful gun cabinet, display and room. I have always been fearful of displaying my collection for fear of the bad guys coming for them.
Bob Jurewicz

Nice display Dean - very well done indeed! Where’s that ‘green with envy’ emiji...??

Mine are not on display but are locked away in the nether regions of my subterranian gun room... for the same reason Bob said.






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From what I see I think Dean has thought this through .

Very nice Dean, beautiful mounts and bar as well. I like that wood work on the bar a lot. Mine are displayed currently in the gun room, locked but not fireproof, very adequately insured. Currently making plans to build which will include a walk in vault.

Wow fabulous!

Some of my considerations. My safes are in a room under the garage, so concrete on 5 sides. Considered making that a gun room but felt the expense was not something you could recover in home value. The house is alarmed with glass breaks in most rooms. The case has “smash proof glass”. Case would break first. Plus the door is alarmed and connected to the house system. Then, my wife’s Velociraptor would eat the first one in. Obviously, when we go away, the guns go in the safe. Insurance also gives state of mind as well.

That's the creme de La Creme Dean! Wish I could display mine the same way. Much easier to look, admire and play with them then. Growing up dad and grandpa had the glass door gun case for 7 or 8 guns. I'd be happy with even that, but like Bob said, too many bad guys coming for them. Like most, I'm keeping mine behind a heavy steel door. It's a very nice collection with great presentation! Thanks for sharing Dean.
Chris, AZ

Are you sure it is large enough?? Great-looking case!!

Speechless. And congrats on a wonderful thought out space. I live somewhat remote and am afraid of the bad guys too. If I'm home they won't get out in one piece let alone alive but when we're not here there's nothing a good thief can't get, alarm system and all.

Great looking case and room! Did you request the quarter sawn wood?

Ken

Ken,
Yes, the quarter sawn oak was a requirement. The back was supposed to be oak as well but the gray leather was chosen as an alternative for contrast. They did a phenomenal job creating it. It is three pieces which sit on top one another so it is manageable to move.

Dean

That case is Beautiful Dean!!! Top notch in every regard. It would be hard pressed to find better.

Now that's a "MAN CAVE". Yes, thank you, I'll have a Buffalo Trace!!!

Dean, please leave me in your will

Buddy's request
 

Buddy, I am not sure if BT is in the bar right now, but I am sure we could find you something with some character:).

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I’ve got everything on lockdown except eight or so I use regularly . I’ve always wanted a vault type room that I could have all displayed in an orderly and readily available way as well as being able to sit and relax amongst my pets :rolleyes: . But at this point in life I don’t see it as being very cost effective .

great room dean...best gun room I have seen...lot s of thought and planning went into this beautiful room.....charlie

Mine is hardly as nice, but it is an antique. It was from a local business (The Hilton Candy Kitchen) that closed in the 1980s and was around since the turn of the century.

I modified the shelving on the one side to be able to accept 14 guns.

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Mine is a mess You cant walk at least the bad guy will be there if he steps in either of the bear traps I have set !

Forget the Southern we should all meet at Dean's.

I was lucky enough to build a room when we moved, everything locked and secured.

Jeff, you need more ammo for all those guns.





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Secure?

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I can't afford ammo these days !

And yes, very, very secure !

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Trap3

Jim, The local BB&T does not have a vault that good! Very nice and secure yo the limit, All the rooms shown are great and something to be proud of, Gary

Gun rooms
 

A shot at mine, Gary

I have a cluttered room also , Two Liberty safes not shown, sometimes I go to the room and spend the better part of a day and night just doing some research and studying those Parkers always see something I missed before, Gary

I used to like my little office upstairs in my house that houses a handful of double guns. Wow! Amazing what some of you guys get to enjoy.

A couple of pics from the gun room of a departed friend of mine. He loved his Colt Woodsmans and Winchester 61s. I used to wander around that gun room in amazement. He also had a passion for Winchester 12s and 42s and had several nice specimens. He left us to early at the age of 65. One year we were at the Kansas City show and he purchased a NIB Model 12 Hydracoil with the ivory colored finishes. I made fun of it and told him it was a girls gun. He joined right in and tried to convince me to dress up in a dress, wig, heels and the whole package and take this maybe never fired gun to the gun club and shoot skeet with it. He thought it would be worth the laugh even if it meant shooting this mint specimen. It's a shame that we never did get that done. I do know where that gun is still today though :)

Wow!! That wouldn't be Edward A. Brink would it?

The only two pistols I own are my Father's Woodsman Target first issue of circa 1930, and my Uncle Irv's Woodsman Target - Second Series - first issue that was a Christmas gift from his wife in 1953. While it has been shot some, it is still in the original box and waxed paper with the instruction manual and cleaning rod/brush. Irv passed it on to me on my 21st birthday. My Father carried his all over the western half of North America, and it shows it.

No Dave it would not be.

your friend was a good collector and you was lucky to have him for a friend...very nice indeed......charlie

Wow, my head's spinning! The man is better stocked than our local Bass Pro, Sportsman's, and Cabella's here in Phx.....

Yes he was in both quantity and quality. It was something to see. I only posted a portion of his guns.

My humble collection resides in a turn of the last century government vault, which is parked in a hidden room, that for all intents and purposes, doesn't exist. Hidden, room, hidden door, etc.
That said, the largest collection that I have ever had contact with, was my daughter in law's Godparents. Absolutely amazing collection! My son's wedding reception was held at their house.
Google Wes Adams gun Collection.

Amazing is all I can say about some of these collections, With a lot of us aging, out so to speak, There will be a lot of nice guns coming to market, and some handed down to sons and grandsons and grand daughters and daughters to enjoy and cherish, hopefully they will remember ol grandpa when they use them! Gary

That is awesome! I am hoping to have a better display someday.