Fred,Your tip and mine look very similar.Very very nice gun Fred! what is engraved on the breech balls? Mine has a duck on each one.

This is a great thread, thanks to all who have posted those pictures.

This one is on the very unusual VH forend with the high grade engraving.


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More tips, most are from early lifters: P top hammer, GHE, G Lifter, D Lifter, C Lifter, B Lifter, $250, $250, AAHE

Dave, No birds on the balls; just scroll and filigree.

Thanks Robin. That's a very nice display of the early style of forend tip. That design was replaced by the late design around 1877 I believe.

Here is mine...

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...07926352_n.jpg

I've always wondered why the change in the design of the forend tip or nose piece was made. I know the thistle is the national symbol of Scotland... maybe a Scottish emigrant working for Parker Bros. made the suggestion or the change itself...


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Nice gloves. Just get those?

They are my "Ancient and Honorable Brush-Worn Partridge Huntin'" gloves and they have certainly seen a season or two...