You could buy a really, really, really nice high grade Parker SBT (my present infatuation) for around that.

Well it's certainly above my pay grade but if I was to buy that gun I think I would shoot it as is as long as the stock is sound enough. To me that gun has character and certainly would be a conversation piece.

For $20K I could buy a select fire sub-gun!!

I went to that gunshop in southern NH to look at it. I asked the owner if I could examine it and he couldn't figure why I drove over an hour to look at "that piece of rusted crap." He tole me that he told the woman who brought it in he would be surprised if he could get $300 for it. I assured him it would fetch well over $7,000 and he guffawed at that absurd figure, that he'd been around guns all his life and knew better than to even think it would sell for even close to that much. I took a bunch of 'before' pics. It had stood in a fieldstone cellar of a house on the coast in Swampscott, MA for almost fifty years. That humid salt air spread a rust powder all over it.

There are a lot of high grade hammerless Parkers around and many in great condition, but this is only the third B grade hammer gun with steel barrels that I know of. It is a rare gun, good luck to the bidders! Gary

There were 7 Grade 5 fluid steel barreled, top lever, hammer guns made.
Five of them had 32" barrels. Two had 30" barrels.

I made a mistake in my previous post.
There are 8 identified Grade 5 steel barreled hammer guns.
Six with 32" barrels and two with 30".

But only 5 made with Titanic Steel barrels and the subject gun is the only known TI5 T/A hammer gun with 32" barrels.





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I don't know if it's six, or five, but we know it's more than one because we Just revisited Mark Conrad's FS thread.

My figure of 5 with Titanic Steel barrels came from the tables at the end of Grade 5 guns n the Grades section of Vol. 1 of TPS.

We know and have evidence of the fact that because of missing books these figures are not absolute... so there may be more of just about anything...





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