Parker Bros. put some outstanding wood on the high grade guns of this period before WW!. They are a sweet spot, great engraving and outstanding wood on many examples. Really a nice gun. Now if it was a 10 gauge BH damascus that would make me do stupid things to add it to my collection :whistle:

If you hadn't added that last sentence as an edit to your initial post Craig, I was going to do it for you.





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Now where did I leave that spare kidney?

If it only was a 28...... :whistle:





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You had your chance when Josh had the Clark Gable gun for sale.

Dean,
That gun is owned my Mike Yacino from Mike's Gun Shop in Whitinsville, may be worth a field trip for ya!!

Ok...what am I missing?

The PGCA letter says the gun was made with 30" Titanic steel barrels. And then it was fitted with 28" Acme steel barrels. Maybe the seller measured the barrels wrong or the order book is wrong or ...?

Thanks,
Ken

I’m betting on the Acme barrels being the original barrels or an undocumented additional factory fitted set.

...IMHO

I have a DHE 28 that TPS and the serialization book say originally had Titanic 28” 28 gauge barrels but it letters with 24” 28 gauge Damascus barrels, and that’s what it wears today. Just sayin...



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Actually it is on consignment with Mike.

I did some research and changed my first post on this thread to reflect my research.

The subject gun 130114, was produced 4,115 guns earlier than the first Acme Steel barreled Parker 134229 known to have been produced.





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