XU Grade?

[Brandon Hunter]

Can't get any feedback on my posts in other forums for my 1878. Not even sure what the model is. Thinking GH but that's only from comparing photos. Any help would be great. I posted this in the new comers forum and the general forum with pics and have no replies.

Parker Bros
Pat'd Nov 13 1866
"MAR23 1875
Ser# 13553 (1878)
Barrel- PLAIN TWIST (30")
Grade- XU
Frame- 2 (10,12)
Weight- 5535?
Overall Length- 46 1/2"

After comparing it to my 870 I'm pretty sure it's a 12 gauge but I'm still not sure what I have here.

[wayne goerres]

You are now on the right thread. You have a parker lifter gun Your pictures are to small to be of any use. You need to remove the barrels and photograph the water table and the barrel flats. that will help with identifaction. The engraveing varries considerable on old parkers even with guns of the same grade. I have a 10ga with nicer engraveing than it should have for an O grade. Have patient,somebody with more experience than I will chime in.Its a little early for a thursday. Some people are at work.

[Rick Losey]

not sure what an XU grade is

but yes, please post clear photos of the engraving and markings on the barrel flats and watertable and you will get answers

[George M. Purtill]

[QUOTE=wayne goerres;97844]Your pictures are to small to be of any use. /QUOTE]

What pictures?

[Rick Losey]

in his other post

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9713

[George M. Purtill]

Thanks Rick
Bill Zachow hit the nail on the head- thats a very small gun.
All kidding aside- get us some good pics and we can opine. It looks like a nice old gun.

[Brandon Hunter]

Lets try to load these again

[Brandon Hunter]

They view fine on my camera and computer but show up mini on here

[Robin Lewis]

I don't know if this will help or not, most times the picture is to big to upload but this video may help. If you make it bigger rather than smaller? This link is found at the very bottom of the FAQ page off our main web welcome page.

Shows how to get a picture that is to large to upload resized so it will. (http://parkerguns.org/pages/faq/DemoMovie/PlayResizePictureVedio.html)

[Eldon Goddard]

The dimensions of your picture are 120x80 pixels it should be 10 times that. Right click the picture and hit edit then change the size.

[Dave Noreen]

GH was a hammerless gun made from 1888 onwards. This gun is not a GH-Grade. The 'H' stands for Hammerless.

Parker Bros. hammer gun grades are a single letter. U was one of the four grade letters for a Quality 0 hammergun. In the hammer gun days, Parker Bros. charged $5 extra for a 10-gauge gun in their lower Qualities and also $5 extra for a pistol grip. So, within Quality O guns there was an R-Grade which was a 10-gauge with a pistol grip and cost $60; an S-Grade which was a 10-gauge with a straight grip and a price of $55; a T-Grade was a 12-gauge or smaller with a pistol grip and cost $55; and a U-Grade gun would be a 12-gauge or smaller with a straight grip with a list price of $50.

[Brandon Hunter]

I appreciate all the good feedback. You would think that at 29 years young I'd be able to figure these pictures out. I've narrowed my problem down to using this ipad. Tomorrow I'm gonna use an actual camera and load the pictures on a computer. I know then I will get some more answers from some of you guys that have way more knowledge and experience than myself.