I would be interested in any link to the above mentioned discussion

Hoping to upload a few pictures soon....

Kevin, in searching in our Parker Pages Digital Archive I find the article "Early 28 Gauge Parkers" by Dave Suponski, Bill Murphy and Mark Conrad shown on page 44 of Vol. 16, Issue 2 (Summer 2009) but when I go to page 44 there is an article by Dave Suponski on original Parker Brothers case hardening.

I'm sure I can find the Early 28 Gauge Parkers article but it's going to take a lot more research.

This is the very first glitch I have ever found in the Digital Archive and it may not even be a problem with the archive but rather it may have originated with the publisher Village Press.





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The PP article has serial numbers listed for early 28s. The article did not include all of my research, but it did include most of it.

Okay - Going on the premise that the error was created by the publisher I went and dug out my hard copy of Issue 2 of Vol 16 and looked at the table of contents and they are exactly as shown in the Digital Archive (which I thoroughly expected to be so) so the next step was to page through the entire magazine and I found the publisher had transposed the two articles and the "Early 28 Gauge Parkers" article was in fact published on page 47.

As Bill says, some of the very earliest 28 gauge serial numbers are listed in the article.

The Parker Pages Digital Archive is available to PGCA Members for $50 and back issues of Parker Pages are available from PGCA Life Member James Hall.





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Posting error

So, whatever happened with the the DuBray grade 7 hammer gun?

I sent you a PM Mike.





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The earliest serial numbers for 28 gauge Parkers is as follows from the article by Dave, Bill and Mark...

94373
95000
95420
95421
95422
95426
95428
95431
97027
97031
97032
97033
97034
97036
97037
97038
97170
97426
99181
99599
99600
99686
99687
100303
101329
102155
102156


Some of these may have been rebarreled 20 gauge guns. We don't have all the data on all of them.





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You're missing 99686 & 99687, which were an identical pair of 24" VH guns.. They were the first 24" 28ga. guns made. They were ordered by H&D Folsom in 1900, and delivered to a "Mister Currier" in 1901

Yes. I was hoping to see pictures.