The prototype that I refer to is in the Remington museum. It is unmarked. And has no description or label.
I was not aware of one that Art owned. I would be interested in seeing that.

Full disclosure. That Norvell-Shapleigh letter came from Roy Marcot's book Remington "America's Oldest Gunmaker" on page 125, credited to the Ken Waite, Jr. collection. A shame it didn't get in to Charles Semmer's book Remington Double Shotguns.

The first of the Crawford C. Loomis patents, Patent No. 1795223 granted March 3, 1931, that Remington attributes to the Model 32 actually shows a trigger-plate action side-by-side double. A couple or three decades ago, Dennis Sannita at the museum at the factory at Ilion hauled out such a gun for me to examine.

I’ll check out the prototype in the NRA museum and post a pic.

Based on a google search I just did it looks like the NRA museum prototype is from the late 80s attempt at bringing the Parker back.

I think you're right Brian.





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