Dave, Brian, Bill didn't say the Half Frame was produced in 1920, merely that there was a memo, dated '20, suggesting it.

I am staying out of this---I only reported what I read !!!

I have owned a few half frame 12 bores, I know where they are today and bid on one years ago at an auction , only to be out bid by Morris Baker !! That is how I met Morris, now a fiend .

Allan

I agree with you, Allan. Morris is "a fiend".

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I have the 1920 (I am in error, it is 1930) memo copy, and I'm sure Dave S. sent it to me when we were discussing the 1/2 frame on this forum. I'll try to find it in my 1/2 frame file. OK, I found the blueprint. It is, for sure, a 1930 document. The date is written less than clearly, and I mistook the 3 for a 2 years ago.

The most interesting feature of the Parker Brothers blueprint is that it called for the water table to be milled out like the 00, 000, and 0 frame hammer guns. That would have been a very elegant feature of the 1/2 frame, had it been implemented.

And made the guns a little lighter than they are.

You're right on. That would have been a neat feature!!!

OK so I think the 1/2frame is cool and very rare but why not just buy a 16ga.

It's the mystique of the gun and the research. They seemed to command a lot more money about a decade ago.





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