Lifter
 

Picture by request.

Gary, that is a typical grade 2 lifter.

Indeed it is the grade 2 pattern.

Sorry Jim.





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No apologies necessary my friend

Dean,

What's up with the dipped edges of the lockplates just behind the firing pins. To me that's the real anomaly - never seen that before. (on any Parker)

Any foreign proof / maker's marks anywhere on that gun?

Regardless, it'sa a very interesting and attractive gun.

Hello Jeff -

This gun was made before the various features that became standard to the grades were completely adopted. Also this gun was made on the smallest Parker frame size ever made until the 00-frame size for the .410 and I believe the dipped top line of the lock plates was done to allow the wood to be sculpted to avoid interference with the radius of the hammer's arc to the firing pin.

That's my best guess anyhow.

There are no marks from any foreign makers on this or any other Parker aside from Whitworth Steel barrels' stamps and possibly any Parkers that were worked on and/or re-proofed in England and stamped as such.


Maybe Gary Carmichael will look at his 20 gauge hammer Parkers to see if they have lock plates so contoured.




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I didnt even notice the shape of the lock plates. That is unique for sure.

The whole gun is just, well, different. The barrel flats with their little winglets (a.k.a. beads) remind me of a British "Bar-In-Wood" while the lock plates and action are very "leFeverish".

Does Dean / whoever owns the thing have the letter on it?

Correctly assuming that it's a 12?

Very interesting gun.

Jeff, I don't have a letter and the owner I believe does not either... or he didn't share it with me.





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I'll have to take a look-see.