New 1893 DH 12 ga

[William Shear]

Here are some more pics. . .

I'm far from an expert on Parkers as this is only my third, and as I mentioned previously, I don't have access to TPS to compare with pics. That said, I'll try to answer some of your ?s in turn:

I believe the checkered panels are original. I scrutinized them very carefully to see if there was an old head pinning I was missing, but happily saw none. I'll have to get a ruler to count LPI, but it does look a bit finer than the checkering on the wrist and forearm.

Gun has definitely been fired, just looks well taken care of. I'm guessing it got put up (and correctly) many years ago. The right breech face shows more evidence of being shot than the left-no pitting at all, just a little more tarnished for lack of a better description. Owner must've been a good shot! There is also some burnishing on the top tang where the lever rubbed some high points when opened.

Muzzle is great, good blacking of the exterior bbls up to the last 1/8" or so. The wedge/keel and solder is all there and bbls touch. The rib matting stops just short of the muzzle as I understand it is supposed to. The front bead looks original. In the pics there looks like scoring in the muzzles-that's just the lighting.

Water table and bbl flats look approp and the damascus pattern carries well along the length of the bbls except is fainter where the forearm rests.