Trojan hinge pin?

[Jay Gardner]

Took every gun out of the safe this afternoon for a thorough wipe-down and coddling. Noticed my early Trojan has no slot in the hinge pin. Checked "the book" and found no reference to slot-less pins. Were all Trojans fitted with slot-less hinge pins?

Thanks,

JDG

[Brian Dudley]

Yes. All Trojans were fitted with the earlier style 1pc pin. This was a cost saving point that was used on the Trojan only.

[Dean Romig]

This was a cost saving point that was used on the Trojan only.

Nope. Sorry Brian, that is not correct. The two-piece slotted hinge pin was introduced sometime in the mid-1890's. According to TPS no patent or patent date has been found for the two-piece hinge pin. Up until the introduction of the two-piece hinge pin all grades of Parker shotguns had the earlier one-piece hinge pin with the exception of the very earliest guns which didn't have the recessed pin design. The Trojan was the only Parker that retained the earlier one-piece hinge pin, as you mentioned, as a cost-saving measure..... with the exception of the Invincibles which did not have a recessed hinge pin.

[Brian Dudley]

Well I did not mean that the 1pc pin was used on just the Trojan. I meant that it was revived for use on the Trojan as a reduced cost feature on that model. I simply neglected to mention that the 1pc pin was used on all models prior to the mid 1890s.