Let's see your GH(E) Parkers

[Craig Larter]

I enjoyed Mills Morrison's multi part article on Grade 2 guns in PP very much but the small pictures published in PP are hard to see any detail. As Mills pointed out there are many differences in Grade 2 guns. So let's see pictures of your Grade 2 Parkers.
Here are my two, a GH 8ga circa 1912 and a 1907 GH 1 12ga frame.

[CraigThompson]

The pictures don’t give the most detail , but my hands are kinda tied at the moment with what’s on my phone . The gun in these two pics is a circa 1889 EH 10 gauge 2 frame with 30” barrels from an November tower shoot .

[Garry L Gordon]

Here are a few I could locate photos of quickly:

1. GH 0 frame 16 with steel barrels
2. O frame (with lightening cuts) 16 hammer gun
3. 20 gauge Damascus GH

[David Livesay]

I have an 1899 GH 12 gauge I will post pics of as soon as I can figure out how to do it.

[David Livesay]

My 1899 GH 12ga.on a #1 frame

[Tom Hawkins]

These GH parkers are 16 and 20 gauge guns. The top gun is a 28" damascus 16 GH that fits really well and is a great rooster gun. The GH Roundel engraved gun has been discussed here before. The 20 GH is a 30" steel barrel gun that is choked tight for doves and pheasant. The two barrel set GHE is 20 and 16 damascus with 26" barrels. It has taken some time to accumulate these and some needed work, but all are good shooters. These guns were all made before 1910. I am partial to the g grades as they are not over the top but nice enough for me.

[John Davis]

GHE and a Doubles trophy at the Grand American.

[Randy G Roberts]

1894 GH 12 Ga
1920 GHE 12 Ga
1924 GHE 12 Ga 34"
1939 GHE 16 Has original AF case
1929 GHE 20 32"VR

[James L. Martin]

Top GH is a 12ga #1 frame from 1899 with Remington installed 1/2 frame 26" barrels marked Ic & mod 2 3,/4 ". Bottom is a 16ga GH from 1910 with 30" barrels.

[Dean Romig]

My 16 gauge 0-frame GH made for the 1893 World's Fair Columbian Exposition with 26" Damascus barrels that I have had a set of 28" 20 gauge Damascus barrels to it.


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[Craig Larter]

Here are a few I could locate photos of quickly:

1. GH 0 frame 16 with steel barrels
2. O frame (with lightening cuts) 16 hammer gun
3. 20 gauge Damascus GH

Garry: Your 20ga Damascus GH is so sweet, what a great gun!! It looks like both birds are looking back that's unusual. I'm kinda surprised that my 8ga GH has waterfowl on all three surfaces. So many variations

[Craig Larter]

These GH parkers are 16 and 20 gauge guns. The top gun is a 28" damascus 16 GH that fits really well and is a great rooster gun. The GH Roundel engraved gun has been discussed here before. The 20 GH is a 30" steel barrel gun that is choked tight for doves and pheasant. The two barrel set GHE is 20 and 16 damascus with 26" barrels. It has taken some time to accumulate these and some needed work, but all are good shooters. These guns were all made before 1910. I am partial to the g grades as they are not over the top but nice enough for me.
Tom: I like the Roundel example, has another example surfaced?

[Reggie Bishop]

Two GH Parkers at my place-

20 gauge 28”
16 gauge 32”

Both 0 frames.

[Dean Romig]

Tom: I like the Roundel example, has another example surfaced?


Craig - To the best of our knowledge this is the only example of a GH with the roundelle style of engraving that has ever surfaced.

About 12 years ago Tom and I were competitors bidding against each other on this unique Parker.
If my memory serves me correctly Tom has given me first refusal should he ever decide to part with it.





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[Dave Noreen]

An 1889 vintage Grade 2 heavy 12-gauge, marked E on the watertable --

124860

124861

124862

[jimlott]

16 ga, Grade 2, 1888. Placed 2nd at the Vintagers this past fall in the 16 ga. hammer class with this gun.

[jimlott]

1907 GHE 20 ga.

[Mills Morrison]

Thanks for starting this thread, Craig. Yes, the pictures did not turn out well. Too bad you could not zoom into magazine photos like you can online. Here are a few more pictures

[Larry Stauch]

Here are some shots of my Remington era 20 gauge GHE.
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[David Noble]

Some pictures of my GHE 16ga Skeet Gun. I apologize for the links, I'm really mentally tired right now.

https://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=709&pictureid=8303
https://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=709&pictureid=8302
https://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=709&pictureid=8290
https://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=709&pictureid=8285
https://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=709&pictureid=8297
https://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=709&pictureid=8286
https://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=709&pictureid=8301
https://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=709&pictureid=8292
https://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=709&pictureid=8300
https://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=709&pictureid=8304

[Larry Stauch]

Wow, that's a beautiful Skeet gun and the engraving is very similar to mine.

[Daryl Corona]

I'm much better at shooting them than photographing them.

Top gun is 16ga GHE damascus 28" , O frame.
Bottom gun is GHE 12ga, 28", 1 1/2 frame

[Bob Jurewicz]

Here is a very early (1890) GH 20 with 32" Vulcan Barrels believed to be factory added.
Bob Jurewicz

[Larry Stauch]

And then some how I let this one slip through my fingers. Maybe someone here picked it up.
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[Craig Larter]

And then some how I let this one slip through my fingers. Maybe someone here picked it up.
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Holy crap what gun!

[Louis Parker]

This is my first Parker shotgun. It was given to me by Shelly Gitman when I was a teenager, and I’m honored to have had Shelly as a friend. At one time, he owned all three (3) Invincibles, serial number 100,000, and shot on the Israeli trap team. This gun is a high condition GH with 30” barrels, and a pistol grip.

Correct Pictures Below:

[Larry Stauch]

This is my GH 12 gauge 2 barrel set with the original set of Damascus barrels and a "new" set of 28" Vulcan steel barrels. The Vulcan barrels are very new looking and fit perfectly, so my assumption is that the owner had Meriden make and fit a new set for the gun. As has been talked about here, the lower grade barrels were less money, so my guess is that's why they're Vulcan and not Parker Special steel for this GH gun. Each barrel set has its own forend and the forend lug hangers are marked 1 & 2.
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