serial lookup

[James Palmer]

Trraveling without my book and ran into the following parkers...any help would be appreciated:

188561
63850
72932

thanks in advance.

james

[Rick Losey]

188561 - not in the book

63850 - D3 (grade 3 with damascus ) 12ga 30" capped pg stock

72932 - not in the book

[James Palmer]

Thank you.

As an aside. Was the FishTail Lever an option....and how rare is it?

63850 has one.

J

[Dean Romig]

James, the fishtail lever was not rare at all and wasn't an option - it was added by Parker Bros. as a production replacement for the straight lever on hammer guns to ease opening of a gun with the right hammer cocked. Many hammerless guns also have the fish-tail lever simply because the factory had an abundance of them available - apparently a lot more than ever would be needed for hammer guns.

A D top-action hammer gun would be prettier with the fish-tail lever IMO.

[James Palmer]

thank you very much. ....

[Rick Losey]

there have been several discussions on the board about the fishtail on both hammer and hammerless. ( just do a search on "fishtail" )

I have one on a hammer gun, it is not listed in the letter, and the letter listed several required details.

some hammerless guns have them- could you order one? most likely, if you wanted a graded gun with one I doubt you would have been told no as long as there was remaining stock