Are the Grade 2 hammerless Dam 20ga counts correct in TPS?

[Craig Larter]

Are the Grade 2 hammerless Dam 20ga counts correct in the PS? I remember an addendum being discussed a while back and I did not record the correct counts. Can anyone help me out? Thanks Craig

[Garry L Gordon]

Craig, I had asked this a while back. Dave Noreen responded back then:

The Quality 2 Damascus barrel hammerless 20-gauge numbers in The Parker Story are all a misprint. You need the Errata Sheet Version 3, 6/6/01. The corrected numbers are 1 24-inch, 145 26-inch, 3 27-inch, 244 28-inch, 49 30-inch, 1 31-inch and 3 32-inch.


Errata Sheet Version 3, 6/6/01 gives us
"Page 279, Table at lower left -- "GRADE 2 HAMMERLESS GUNS WITH DAMASCUS STEEL BARRELS" -- The column with statistics for the 20 gauge is incorrect. A total of 446 hammerless doubles of 20-gauge were made with barrel lengths as follows: (length/count) - (32/3), (31/1), (30/49), (28/244), (26/145), (24/1). These changes will effect the totals in various summary tables."

[Garry L Gordon]

Here are two threads related to this question:

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30497&highlight=parker+story+errata&page=2

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22506

[Mills Morrison]

The errata sheet makes sense. TPS brought us way ahead in Parker knowledge, but it is an ongoing process. I bet the authors themselves would be the first to acknowledge that. It is what makes Parker research so much fun too

[Bill Murphy]

Yup, our precious little Dam 2 20 gauges are as common as a Mercedes in Middleburg.

[Craig Larter]

Thanks guys, I found I had recorded the figures but under 20ga TL hammer gun column. Grade 1,2 and 3 hammerless damascus 20ga guns made up about 1 1/2% of total production. Not rare but uncommon, an example of each would make a nice collection for the average collector. Thanks again for help.

[Dean Romig]

I’m in the process of adding a beautiful set of 28” 20 gauge Damascus barrels to one of my 0-frame 16 ga. Damascus GH on the 0-frame guns. It’ll be a sweet combo.

Here's the frame.


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[Mills Morrison]

I have a 0 frame 16 project I am working on as well

[Craig Larter]

Small bore hammerless Parkers with Damascus barrels are the ultimate, uncommon but available. Very nice Dean!!

[Dean Romig]

I just added pictures to my previous post.





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[Mills Morrison]

I just added pictures to my previous post.





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Very nice!

[Dean Romig]

Incidentally, the GH I showed was actually made for Parker Brothers shotgun display at the 1893 Worlds Fair Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Dave Fjelline fitted the 28” 20 gauge Damascus barrels to it for me.

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[Brian Dudley]

Are ANY of the counts correct really?

[Bill Murphy]

Dean's combo gun is pretty neat. My GHE combo gun is a zero frame 28" Damascus 16 with 26" Parker Special Steel barrels and 32" 20 gauge Vulcan steel barrels, missing from an A1 Special factory two barrel set.

[Brian Dudley]

Dean's combo gun is pretty neat. My GHE combo gun is a zero frame 28" Damascus 16 with 26" Parker Special Steel barrels and 32" Vulcan steel barrels, missing from an A1 Special factory two barrel set.

Pretty neat sounding. I would love to see pics.