One more note on the gun. A couple of pictures of the gun show sections of the barrel as blotchy. It may be just the picture, but these barrels were perfect after I refinished them. No imperfections. If you look at my old damascus refinishing tutorial, these barrels are pictured.

The restoration job done prior to my purchase of the gun wasn't bad but the re-checkering in the skeletal butt plate was terrible. Also the barrels were redone in the incorrect brown and white.

I bought this gun from John (Bill will know who I am talking about) at a pigeon shoot. I quickly did the barrels correctly and I remember Bill Murphy asking me if I did the work.

The rib extension on Parkwr barrels typically is all one piece. This one may have had a repair done previously or maybe even at the factory requiring a section to have to be soldered onto the top of the extension. Just speculating.

You're a couple days late for April foolin' Tom... :whistle:





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It's a mystery to me. Before the problem, the doll's head was nicely engraved and fit perfectly. No sign of work having been performed. The gun also had a woodcock engraved on the trigger guard with some nice scroll.

No Dean.....this is not an April Fools joke though it seems so.

Well, mystery solved. But why it wod be two piece dolls head is curious. Perhaps a repair due to a bad drop on the dolls head before tig welding was available. Thanks for sharing the story Tom.

" It is possible this firearms has undergone professional modifications in the past, however cannot be confirmed"

No kidding!!

Maybe it has something to do with the Elk’s thingy... :)

You could be right. But that thingy always impressed me as great attention to detail on the part of the Parker engraver. I would like to have that gun back but I'm choking on paying $3900 more than I paid for the gun originally. I don't think its worth the asking price. Too bad, if the price was right I would buy it and send it to you to fix the doll's head.

One more thing....Kevin McCormack looked at that gun and then turned away muttering something about elk on a bird gun. The detailed execution was lost on him. I thought that was hilarious.

Luckily, the floorplate engraving of the elk on my 16 ga. 0 frame AH Damascus gun is so worn from 121 years of handling that the details of the genitalia are not discernible.