I have no intention of selling it but it is fun to look at and shoot.

No arrows on the rib markings. Unusual for a 1904 gun.

We had three C 20's together for a Kansas hunt last January, two damascus barreled and one fluid steel.

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I LOVE THAT WOODDUCK !!!!!

Bruce, I just happen to have one of those CH guns without the arrows at each end of the rib inscription. I say 'rib inscription' because it was not done with a roll die but was engraved. This one is obviously a Bernard barreled CH.

Hey, you guys just keep giving the rest of us more reasons to buy another !!

The very early hammerless guns had hand engraved rib inscriptions, but by the mid 1890's all I have seen were roll stamped. The early hammerless ones sometimes omitted the arrrows, but this one is unusual because it is a 1904 gun and should have had the arrows. It is roll stamped.

Bruce,
I don't have any pictures handy but my 1902 Whitworth barrels have the inscription engraved and are also without the arrows.

My CH Bernard is ser. no. 84088 an 1896 gun. I wonder what determined wether the rib legend was roll stamped or engraved within the same grade?

My BH grade Damascus gun #84709 is roll stamped with arrows and so is D grade #84212.

Is it possible that Parker didn,t have a roll stamp for Bernard guns? Does anyone have one?