Here is a picture of the stock book entry for grip type. Easy to see why the Serialization book is wrong. You can just make out the stamped CPG and written over it is STR.

Thanks for posting that Chuck! I plan to get a letter request headed your way.

I can't recall if I've ever noticed a Setter on the left side, and Pointer on the right side.

Remington obviously didn’t have any respect for Parker Bros. tradition… they changed sides for the setter and pointer.
Look at any Parker Repro DHE and you’ll see the reversal. The Parker Repros were based on the Ilion Remington produced guns that Tom Skeuse sent to the Kodensha factory to copy.





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I once owned a Meriden 20 gauge with the Setter on the left side and Pointer right. If I recall it now resides in the Show Me State.So at least one exists that I have seen.

What grade was that Parker Reggie? If it were. BH or higher I wouldn’t be surprised to see dogs on reversed sides, but on a DH it would be highly unusual.





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Damn!, I agree with Dean. BH grades had two dogs per side.

Also, Reggie, do you recall the sn range? That would help to pin down the engraver. While my BHE 20 has two dogs, per side, they are both the same. Two pointers on the left, and two setters on the right.
Runge, the younger, began engraving after the distinctive oval around the dogs was no longer used, but my Runge engraved CHE 20 that he upgraded for Shelly Gitman does have those ovals, to correspond with it's sn range.

I think it was #186753, CHE 20. I believe that was the 20 with reversed dogs. The gun on the left in my avatar.

That was a typical feature on dogs engraved during the period when Frederick Anschutz was chief engraver. When he died in 1930 that feature ended for the most part. I had been a proponent of those dogs having been engraved by him... but who knows. And now we see one engraved by Runge with that feature...





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