28 ga. GH on gunbroker

[Jim DiSpagno]

Some professional input in this gun please. Gunbroker item # 264902231 GH 28 ga started life as a damascus 28 ga. Worth the price?? Thanks Jim

[Bill Murphy]

You would have to determine whether the Damascus barrels are under the blue or not. If they are still under there, the gun is a rare gun with cut barrels in need of quite a bit of work. If the barrels are sleeved, the gun has no value.

[Jim DiSpagno]

Bill, thy were sleeved as evidenced in the pics. Thanks, Jim

[Bill Murphy]

Which picture? I can't see what you are seeing.

[Jim DiSpagno]

Bill, gunbroker item 264902231 Pic #3 sleeve marks visible b/t special and steel more visible on R bbl than on L bbl

[Bill Murphy]

Sorry, I put a correction on my post when I looked closer at the picture, but the correction did not post. My final comment on my edit was "The price is off the scale."

[Jim DiSpagno]

Thanks so much Bill

[Dave Noreen]

114514 is not in the compilation of 28-gauge serial numbers in The Parker Story.

[Bill Murphy]

The "compilation" section in the Appendix is not very reliable, in my experience. Just today, I checked two graded eight gauges whose total production figures did not agree from the "Grades" section, compared to the Serialization Book, further compared to the Appendix compilation. I can understand that the Grades section is adjusted for missing books, but the Serialization Book and the Appendix compilation is compiled from the same source, the Stock Books. We just have to remember that the volume of the work eliminates any chance for perfection. The Parker Story is still the greatest gun book ever written.

[Richard Flanders]

That sleeving line looks pretty far forward, doesn't it? It looks like "Special" was added after grinding off "Damascus" or something on the rib. Do all the 28's have that much steel at the breeches? Maybe it was a rebarreled 20ga. Whatever it is/was it does seem pretty high priced.

[Dean Romig]

Rich, a 0-frame 28 ga is most likely what it is... a 20 gauge frame with 28 gauge barrels. That's how the early 28's were made.

[Tom Roller]

A few weeks ago I made a post referencing a DH my father purchased years back - about 20-25yrs ago. Damascus barrels were sleeved and the damascus roll stamp was sanded off and replaced with "titanic." In addition - the tubes on the gun are 25"

If you compare the pictures of the DH with this GH 28 on gunbroker I am almost certain they were done by the same smith - the case color is very similar and the "forging" of the steel name is very, very similar. As stated above - both were sleeved to 25" total barrel length.

I am not going to comment on value - but if it means anything, the smith work on my dads DH is quite solid (even if the CC is not right) and the gun is a good shooter.

[Jim DiSpagno]

serialization book says D2 Capped pg no extras 28 ga. 28" long

[Bill Murphy]

Jim has reminded us that the gun was an ORIGINAL factory 28 gauge before being sawed off. Jim mentioned that in his first post. The faked up rib marking is in the Parker style, but way less than perfect, as all such faked up markings were. The only perfect marking I have ever seen is on my sleeved magnum ten gauge Parker DH. That marking now reads "Lefever Steel". If the same craftsman had instead marked it "Titanic Steel", it would have been hard to distinguish from original.