Looking for info on my Lifter

[Phillip Carr]

I purchased this Lifter in a multi gun deal. It’s been messed with but I figured it could be a shooter or a parts gun at worst.
I am posting pictures and appreciate comments. Butt stock is cracked but could be repaired.
The things that stand out are. The Crescent butt plate seems deeper than most Parker’s I have seen. At some point it was converted to a selectable single trigger. Finally the rib has been drilled in multiple places. Why? Who knows?

[Dean Romig]

A letter might address the deeply curved butt contour.





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[Phillip Carr]

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[Phillip Carr]

Unfortunately I checked with Chuck most of the information is non legible.

[Dean Romig]

That's too bad Phil.

It's an enigma!





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[charlie cleveland]

man what questions that will never be answered....reckon what fellow built this gun....charlie

[Phillip Carr]

Any information on the trigger, crescent butt, rib and and the markings is greatly appreciated since there is little information available in the records.

[Brian Dudley]

That is a very neat gun! The buttplate looks to be original to me, it is of the proper style for the gun, just a lot more curved.
And though the single trigger is obviously a much latter addition. It is very rare to see a single triggered hammer gun, let alone a lifter.

Other than the damaged to the stock head, it looks to be in great condition.

[Phillip Carr]

I just realized I didn’t post a picture of the rib. Barrels ring but why the screws along the rib?

[Mike Franzen]

I have never seen a single trigger on a lifter. Has anyone?

[Dean Romig]

I’ve seen one on a T/A AA hammer gun but not a Lifter.

I can’t even imagine what those screws are for.



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[Bill Murphy]

The George Peck C Grade lifter has a Lancaster single trigger. My Prussian Daly hammer pigeon gun also has a Lancaster (Infallible) single trigger. Both guns were mentioned in a Lancaster catalog folder. I don't know who owns the George Peck lifter, but it surfaced several years ago with a PGCA member. I would like to put it together with the Daly some day.

[Jay Oliver]

Phil, I think that is a wonderful lifter with several unique features. In my opinion it would be worth fixing.

I would "guess" the the rib was loose or came off and to screw it on was easier then soldering back on. I think that can be fixed or at least improved. That would be a good question for Breck Gorman.

I like that curved buttplate. Overall a fantastic early Lifter!

[ED J, MORGAN]

probably someone installed a vent rib

[Ed Blake]

Could be screws for a sight. I had a GH that had two screw holes at either end of the barrrl roll mark. I was told they fastened a Nydar (?) gunsight.

[Bill Murphy]

I have two Parkers with screws in the rib. Unfortunately, my Nydar sights do not line up with the screw holes.