Nice one

[John Dallas]

Would someone please look up #87477. Thanks

[Mike Shepherd]

D6 H 0 C 32

Grade 6 Damascus (A Grade), hammerless, no options, capped pistol grip, 10 gauge, 32" barrels.

Best,

Mike

[Mark Ouellette]

Oh my! Where is that nice and big Parker?

[John Dallas]

I plan on having the gun at the Michigan Sunday Shoot at DGC. The gun is outrageous. Absolutely unmolested. Only issue is that someone used a barrel stretcher on it. Barrels measure 32 3/16". Gun is not mine and IS NOT FOR SALE. Have taken some poorish photos, but they don't want to download ( the attachment window says the files are loading, but it's been 20 minutes.) Hmmm

[Mark Ouellette]

Not for sale!!! You are killing me!

Anyway, I look forward to seeing this grand old man. Oh, that's the gun not you Big D! It will also be good to meet you.

Mark

[John Dallas]

Here are pictures:

[Mark Landskov]

WOW!

[Jay Gardner]

I had the pleasure of seeing this gun in person and John's pictures hardly go the gun justice (sorry, John). The gun is simply spectacular and, in my humble opinion 100% original and right at rain. The damascus colors are original and if you want a benchmark for what they look like here is the standard.

[Robert Delk]

Almost wish I hadn't see this one...just too darn nice!

[Bill Murphy]

Is it a World's Fair gun or a CEP gun? What is the provenance?

[John Dallas]

Serial number is in first posting. Research letter has been ordered

[Chuck Bishop]

What makes you say the damascus barrels are original color and haven't been redone? Just asking. Beautiful gun

[John Dallas]

The gun has been in the same family for nearly a century, and they haven't messed with it in that time

[Rick Losey]

ok - what I like about it is -- oh heck everything!!

I can't make out the blurry pic, a bird?, but a pointing dog on a 10 bore with 32 inch tubes? I'd like to have met the man who carried that all day and still swung it on a flush.

And it stayed in the family, fantastic. I like poking around antique shops but I often look at something and think that a family lost part of its heritage.

thank you for posting this one.

[John Dallas]

Two of the dogs have birds (I assume ducks) in their mouths. The ducks have crests on thier heads. Mergansers? Wood ducks ?

[Jay Gardner]

There are dogs and birds all over the gun: both sides, breach balls, trigger guard top end of the floor plate. Bottom of the floor plate is a pair of elk. It's just spectacular in every way.

All of the screws are perfect - not one has seen a screw driver since the day the gun left Meriden. The ONLY exception is the screw holding the brass plate on the pistol grip cap which is not aligned perfectly. I if the original owners name/initials are on the other side of that plate....

[Larry Mason]

Double WOW!

[Ray Masciarella]

Can't we see more photos!!!!!

[Ray Masciarella]

Here is it's twin, SN 89415, a 12 ga. I have always tried to figure out when the engaving patterns changed from the dogs being towards the front of the frame to later towards the back. The 10 ga shown above adds a little more to my research.

Is the pattern on the floorplate similar to the one shown here?

And for the gentleman who asked whether the damascus pattern can look so good a 100 years later, the pattern on my gun is almost as nice after all these years. This is way I hate to buy new guns that are good looking-you never use them, and I guess the same was true 100 yeras ago!!!

Best, Ray

[David Dwyer]

Absolutely fantastic
I would love to see A grades as the focus of next years banquet ?
David

[Mark Ouellette]

There photos are of Big D's friend's AH 10:

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3384

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3383

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3382

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3381

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3380

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3379

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3378

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3377

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3376

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3375

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3374

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3373

[John Dallas]

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the barrels of this gun are 32 3/16". How common was it for barrels to be longer than advertised?

[Dean Romig]

Uncommon but not unheard of.

[John Truitt]

I have only owned two damascus parkers and each was slightly longer than listed in their corresponding letters.
Each gun was listed as 32" but each were 1/8 to 3/16 longer.
Just my very limited experience. Hope this helps.

John

PS

Thank you and to your friend thank you for sharing with us.

[CraigThompson]

I've coveted Parkers for about 40 of my 50 years on this earth . And in that time I've cherished all the gauges . But for some reason in the last few years I've found myslef drawn to the 8's and 10's quite a bit more .

[Patrick Lien]

There photos are of Big D's friend's AH 10:

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3373


Great gun and wonderful pictures. I looked over the floor plate and may have found the engravers initials on the bottom right under the elk. Perhaps you could get a good close up of this area and we could confirm if I am seeing H.G.

thanks
Patrick

[Mark Ouellette]

Patrick,

Thanks! I'll try to blow up that area from the original photo and post it tonight.

Mark

[John Dallas]

I've returned the gun to its rightful owner - don't want that rattling around in my car for too long. I've asked him to take a look. I've blown up the picture and don't see anything. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right place. Sounds like an old country song - "Looking for love in all the wrong places"

[Patrick Lien]

I've returned the gun to its rightful owner - don't want that rattling around in my car for too long. I've asked him to take a look. I've blown up the picture and don't see anything. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right place. Sounds like an old country song - "Looking for love in all the wrong places"


Here is what I found. I would suspect these are Henry Gough's initials.

Patrick

[Mark Ouellette]

Patrick,

You are correct! There is definately a "H G" in the center of this cropped photo.

Many thanks,
Mark

http://www.parkerguns.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3398

[John Dallas]

Received the letter on my friend's gun . Shipped on Feb 7, 1898 to Oren Scotten in Detroit. Pistol grip cap was engraved "OS" (cap now has been burnished enough that the letters are missing) Weight is 9#, 15 oz. Price was shown as $300, discounted to $225. Gun was retuned in 1905 for rebrowning of the barrels and redressing the stock. Preliminary investigations show that Mr. Scotten's was a major industrialist in Detroit, making his money in tobacco. He would have been 48 when he purchased this gun. There is no clear understanding of how the gun ended up with my friend's grandfather. There is a whispered conjecture that the gun may have been won in a card game.