What's on your plate?

[Ray Masciarella]

Birds gather at the fence post.

[Rick Losey]

a setter pointing a bird in the grass

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg195/setterw/109_4497.jpg

[Ray Masciarella]

Rick, I hope he has not found my birds! Ray

[edgarspencer]

A couple of critters that look like they belong in a Doctor Seuss book.

[charlie cleveland]

nice birds fellows and them dogs been on point a long time... charlie

[David Dwyer]

two setters climbing a fence

[Robin Lewis]

Elk...Stag...?

[Ray Masciarella]

Robin, Is your stag and family related to mine?

[Ray Masciarella]

Three cranes and an unlucky fish.

[Ray Masciarella]

He sees something he likes!

[Fred Verry]

Ray, Rick, David, and Robin don't leave us in suspense. What do the frame side engravings look like? Thanks.

[Ray Masciarella]

Fred. Great idea. Stay tuned.

[Russ Jackson]

CHE , and the second a BHE ............:corn:

[Mills Morrison]

Early EH.

[Larry Frey]

CHE 12x32".

[Mark Ouellette]

CHE 12x32".

Larry,

Those are the most realistic birds that I have seen on a Parker!

Very nice indeed!

[Harryreed]

What great photos!!! Wish I could do that.

[Eric Eis]

I just like this one, a C grade 16 ga

[charlie cleveland]

thats the best duck i ve seen on a parker...nice gun....charlie

[Dean Romig]

Jim DiSpagno's early DH




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[Mills Morrison]

That reminds me of the Fred Kimble DH

[Ray Masciarella]

I wish my eyes were good enough to see this detail without blowing it up.

[Harryreed]

Love the squirrel!!!

[charlie cleveland]

should the stags left side knee cap be to the front instead of the rear or is it just me.. its a fine stag by any means..charlie

[calvin humburg]

28832 if only it were a 1 frame 16...

[Craig Larter]

My BHE--nice dog but beautifully cut scroll in my opinion.
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t2/clarter/BHE_TP_zps8708e579.jpg (http://s156.photobucket.com/user/clarter/media/BHE_TP_zps8708e579.jpg.html)

[Harryreed]

The above engraving of the dog makes me wonder. When ordering higher grade Parkers, would Parker allow the customer to request engraving from a photo or sketch. The post above seems to have a personal request by customer. If so I would order one tomorrow, at any price, if the floor plate or side panel plate had this pup on it.

[JAMES HALL]

A Big Bird. CHE 12

[Rich Anderson]

A couple of my favorites. An AHE 28 and the Hollywood Gun,and my all time favorite Gunner's gun

[Rich Anderson]

Here's something you don't see very often. This is on a BHE 12 live bird gun.

[Dean Romig]

Rich, can you tell us the name of the original buyer of that BHE?

[Dean Romig]

John M. Browning's AH.




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[Rich Anderson]

Rich, can you tell us the name of the original buyer of that BHE?

The gun was ordered by C. E. Robbins of Fargo, ND on 12/15/1903.

[Robin Lewis]

Another deer.

[Rich Anderson]

I'd like to know what the engravers at Parker were thinking when they would put deer,elk ect on the floorplate of their shotguns. Upland birds and waterfowl would seem a more logical theme.

[Bill Murphy]

Rich, C.E. Robbins was quite the shooter. He was elected President of the North Dakota State Sportsman's Association in 1896.

[Larry Stauch]

I had to go to the side to get large animal.....hope that's not offensive to anyone.

[Eldon Goddard]

Mr. Romig how do we know that was John Browning's? I recently went to the John Browning Museum and asked about him owning this Parker. They claimed the only record of John Browning owning a Parker was a DH.

[Mills Morrison]

:envy:

[Bill Murphy]

OK, Dean, since we as an organization have decided not to drag our collection around as we did in the past, please give our poster a synopsis of the provenance of the Browning A Grade, preferably with a scan of the order book and stock book pages. Thanks.

[Dean Romig]

Bill, I don't have that information at my fingertips and hope that someone who does will post available provenance on that gun here.

[Ray Masciarella]

The serial number of the first photo posted, ie song birds, etc., is the serial number just before the Browning gun. I believe there were 3 AHs all in a row and I guess built at the same time. Wonder where the other gun is?

[Harryreed]

Ray, on the photo you posted with the three cranes and fish, do you know anything about the original purchaser of that Parker? That is a very interesting gun.

[Robin Lewis]

Information on Mr. Browning's gun was taken from the article in the Jan/Feb 2002 issue of Parker Pages.

[Bruce Day]

OK, Dean, since we as an organization have decided not to drag our collection around as we did in the past.......


Well, we displayed the Browning gun at Pheasant Fests for at least the last three years in Minneapolis, Des Moines and Kansas City, and at the 2012 NRA Conventions in St Louis where over 200,000 people have seen it. I have no plans to show it in Milwaukee this year but I'm sure people will again have an opportunity to see John Browning's Parker that he ordered to shoot with his gunning friend Charles Parker.

Its been popular with Browning Arms representatives at these shows.

[Ray Masciarella]

Harry, it is one of the guns Charles E Parker ordered in 1890 for show purposes. It traveled to many shows throughout the 1890s and remained in Parkers inventory til around 1900 or so when it was sold for $100-a $200 discount! I have seen one other AH with the same engraving.

PS-I think they are actually great blue herons.

[Harryreed]

Thanks Ray, I had not seen that until you posted it. I think it shows off the talents of the engraver. As for the 66% discount, I guess if it was a show gun it probably had some handling marks, therefore, the discount. But it cost less then my CH from the factory.