ivory bead

[Herb Hewlett]

Just picked up a Parker v grade 20 in decent shape.It has an ivory center bead and the end bead is brass.
My questions are is the end bead screwed in? Are ivory beads for it available?
That is real ivory and do they screw in or push in?
It's an 0 frame with 26" barrels built 1926

[John Dallas]

Ivory? Uh Oh! Has our gub-mint come to their senses and eased the restriction on ivory? If not, one shouldn't buy anything that has even a bead's worth of ivory. :nono:

[Brian Dudley]

Brass beads are usually threaded in. Original parker brass front beads are also threaded. They are a smalll number 2 thread. Modern beads are usually number 3 size.

[Dean Romig]

Ivory beads can still be had. Abe Chaber in CT made one for my 28 ga. VHE using Mammoth ivory. Mammoth ivory is not rare at all these days with ivory hunting Native Americans in the Canadian provinces and native peoples in the far northern climes of Eurasia as well.





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[Phil Yearout]

Brownells has the Mammoth ivory beads; I have installed them on several of my guns.

http://www.brownells.com/shotgun-parts/sights/front-sights/shotgun-sight-bead-prod9651.aspx

[Dean Romig]

I just got off the phone from talking with David for nearly an hour.

One of the topics we discussed was 'synthetic ivory', Micarta to be exact. David actually brought the subject up...
Micarta is extremely durable - more so than true ivory in fact, and it ages nicely too, gaining that nice amber color in time. It is really just as attractive as the real thing and is easy to obtain and cuts nicely on the lathe.





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[Jerry Harlow]

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10015&highlight=ivory