Mills those are sweet!

Thanks Keith! I had the 16 freshened up last year and this photo reminds me the 12 needs attention too. The 12 is Harry's go-to Parker for double gun events

I had never noticed before that the top tang of your 2-frame(?) 12 is another half again as wide as your 0-frame 16. Can you measure them and let us know?

And how close are the in serial number?



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Are those steel barrels on your 16, Mills?

Yeah, what's with that ejector stop plate???





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Zenni is having a 30% off sale right now.

Not sure what is going on. It came to me that way.

FWIW both guns handle a bit heavy for their frame sizes

Look at the negative space, its almost like it was designed that way!

Finally found my 10 ga hammer gun #3 frame. It will not open if the right hammer is cocked. The serial number is 55,2XX.

Jack

Just happened upon an article in a an early Double Gun Journal which made me remeber this thread so I wanted to mention it. Written by Charlie Price for the Volume Four Issue 4 edition entitled "The Parker Fish-Tail Top Lever". It discusses a lot of the itms brought up in thisthread, but also touches on some other points. Some of them are: the order book in mid-1884 had a not to "Make hooked top lever so gun will cock when open"; Many early top lever hammer guns before the fishtail had the lever offset to the left; and there is a picture of a 7 frame 8 gauge with a fishtail that will cock while open, but if the gun is cocked when closed, the gun will not open when cocked.

It's a pretty interesting article if interested in the subject and worth a look if you have the Issue available.