G grade engraving

[Daniel G Rainey]

Am new to Parkers having gotten the bug Oct 2014. Trying to learn as much as I can. Noticed old GH on some web site a few days ago that was unlike any G engraving I had seen. I am used to seeing G engraving with Parker Bros done in curve over the two birds and border engraving with what I would call a pinwheel around the screws heads. This gun looked like a P grade With the engraving around the screw heads with Parker Bros. engraved in a straight line like on V grade with two birds below. I may have seen that similar engraving on a old E grade. Was this common at the time or does this just happen to be different ? Dan

[Brian Dudley]

That is just an earlier style of engraving used on the G grades. Used in the first 10 years or so of Hammerless production. D grades of this time frame are different from later ones as well.

[Daniel G Rainey]

Thank you very much. Dan

[Dean Romig]

If it didn't have the oval vignette with the two birds on the sides of the frame, or at least just two birds without the oval it sounds like a P that was misidentified as a G.

[Brian Dudley]

Very early GH grade guns did not have the Oval, but they still had birds.

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[Chris Travinski]

http://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/shotguns/parker-shotguns/parker-gh-12-damascus-collector-quality.cfm?gun_id=100580474

Here is a pretty minty example of the engraving subject in this thread.

[Daniel G Rainey]

That is I was asking about. The engraving was very similar to the GH I saw. One of the two birds almost always is a " looking back " bird. Dan

[Mills Morrison]

I am a big fan of early GH engraving