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Dean Romig

10-17-2016 06:10 PM

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Here are the right side and the floor plate of a 16 ga. 0-frame GH with Damascus barrels.

Two good examples of 'looking back' birds on the same gun. (Possibly a mating posture?)

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Kevin McCormack

10-17-2016 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by David Fishley (Post 201100)

How are you able to determine those looking back birds are sharptail? Their bodies are very elongated and remind me more of some African birds not any bird I know of in N. America. With their long necks perhaps some type of goose.

Maybe cormorants or anhingas.

Bill Anderson

10-17-2016 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack (Post 203685)

Maybe cormorants or anhingas.

Seems to me, just not good enough engraving to tell.

Bill

Daniel G Rainey

10-18-2016 07:23 AM

Adore the engraving. Sharptails on the side and pheasant on the floor plate. I was told the Parker did not engrave pheasants on guns until pheasant hunting kind of took off after states begin to open pheasasnt season around 1900.

Dean Romig

10-18-2016 08:06 AM

I have seen pheasants engraved on early Parkers where the white neck-ring in clearly visible in the engraving... not so much on these pictures birds.

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Dean Romig

10-18-2016 09:12 AM

Incidentally, the GH I pictured is 76084, an 1892 gun so perhaps the long-tailed birds are not really pheasants at all...?

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MARK KIRCHER

10-18-2016 11:16 AM

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Men -

Following this thread got me to thinking about "looking back dogs" - did they too start to become scarce at the end of the H. Gough era? My H. Gough (1890) gun is the only one I have with them I believe..........????

Rick McKenzie

10-18-2016 08:57 PM

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Interesting thread! Here's mine, made in 1903.
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Rick Losey

10-18-2016 09:35 PM

Mark

not sure if he is looking back or sideways - 1888

http://parkerguns.org/forums/picture...pictureid=6899

Dean Romig

10-18-2016 09:39 PM

'Casting a casual sideways glance' I would say....:coffee:

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