looking forward to the pictures of the8 ga...charlie

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Is anyone willing to post pics for me? I can email you the pics from my phone. Sorry to keep everyone in suspense.

Could some PM Tom Armbrust's contact info? I'd like to get some shells made up for this ole girl.

Robert, you can email the pics to me at dsromig@aol.com

Email them to hereed@mindspring.com and I will post.

Thank you so much Harry.
This gun appears to be a grade 2 and not a grade 3.
Looking thru the Parker Serialization book, there appears to be a number of 8ga's made that year.

Robert.... let's see the pictures. Two people have offered to post them for you.

Pictures coming in a second

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Here they are
 

First Five

Three more
 

Here are the remaining photos.

is that an 8 or a 10"

Wow... 36" tubes!!

A PGCA letter will clear up the difference in grade between the gun and the Serialization Book. The PGCA letter could also give information about the original purchaser as well as the grade. That looks like a good solid gun that has been used for the purpose it was made for.

It seems there was an 8 gauge at the 2013 Spring Southern that lettered as a D and was clearly a G. I would be curious to see the letter on this one too. Very nice gun. In good shape, but not so good that it can't be hunted and shot.

two more photos
 

Last 2 photos. Sorry for them being posted in three different posts. Next time I will combine them in one post. They were scattered out in my inbox and I did not see all of them at first glance.

Harry

Is that an LC Smith 8?

WOW. The Smith looks like an 8 as well. Great find. Cogradulations. A Packard and a Caddy in the same barn!

I think you made a very good buy on the Parker, congratulations.

i envey you with all those nice 8 ga s...only ever seen 1 lc smith 8 ga for sale and i seen an auction site were a fair lefever 8 ga had sold for 1500 i was about 3 months late on the auction was about ten years ago... thanks for showing us these old 8 s .... charlie

Congratulations!

Cadillacs do not deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Packards :rotf:

Rob sent me the following via his phone so I will post:

"The LC Smith is in the pic for comparison. It's a 10 ga."

I assume he is unable to post on the Forum from his phone.:banghead:

I now believe in miracles.

Did we ever discover the frame size?

That LC Smith is a find too, even in 10 gauge.

yes a lc smith 10 ga is a heart breaker too...i know i ve got one too....but would trade it for a lc smith 8 ga in a heart beat even a real beat up one....hope the lc 10 dont read this...charlie

Sending out for a letter tomorrow. I'll post the letter once I receive it.

That is a mighty nice gun you have. Can't wait to see the history behind it

Gentlemen,

As I stated on page 5 of this thread, we are done discussing if anyone got ripped off concerning this 8 gauge.

Because of this I had to delete a couple posts today. Sorry guys but that stuff causes an otherwise good thread to go downhill in a hurry!

If you want to discuss ethics you are welcome to start a new thread in the Members Only Off Topic sub-forum.

Mark

Forget that business about cheating widows as Mark suggests. I bought my first eight gauge Parker from a Griffin and Howe employee, an experienced trader in antique guns, for $470.00 after it sat on his gun show table for three days. At the same show at another time, I bought a Lindner 16 gauge hammer gun, the only one I have ever seen or heard of, for $700.00, from an experienced dealer in antique guns. If you don't buy it, someone else will, and they will flip it and you will add it to your collection. I would rather see such guns added to collections rather than being "flipped".

Bill, you need to put your prices in perspective. By that I mean, when did you make those excellent purchases? If the items were purchased in the last 15 years, you did wonderful. If 20 to 30 years ago, average. My pre 64 Winchester model 70s in 22 hornet, 375 H&H, and 243 heavy target all cost way less than $1000 each...35 years ago.

Bill, bought the Parker eight 15 years ago, the Lindner 16 a few years later. The eight did not have a forend. Ron Kirby provided me with a nice #7 frame forend.

Thanks, Bill. Extremely good buys. In spite of our economy, the prices of collectable firearms has greatly exceeded the inflation rate ver the past 30 years. Every gun I have sold has almost tripled in price since I sold them, and I wish I had kept every one.

Bill we have the same taste in Pre 64 M70's although I don't have a varmint 243 I do have a nice std grade 243 and a couple of others.:)

I am looking at the photos of this gun again and it appears to have almost identical engraving to my 8 gauge. I bet it was the same engraver. What year was this one made? Mine was made in 1913

Mills, 156,970 is a 1911 vintage. Definitely close enough to be the same engraver.