Parker gun shield
 

Parker Brothers inlaid a silver or gold shield into the butt stocks of all grades , other than Trojans with none. So here is the question !!
If a person wanted his/her initials engraved on the shield, how would you know the arrangement of first name, middle name & last name as engraved on the shield.
Example---Allan Harry Swanson----would it be AHS or ASH. What would tell the difference in the arrangement??

Example please.

Allan

Monograming is sort of a lost art today and figure there has to be a rule to how the letters are arranged and sized. (at least with an interwoven monogram).

I know that the Last initial would a lot of times be in the middle if the letters are all side by side (ie: ASH in your case). And usually the middle letter (for last name) would be slightly larger.

Some of the old world interwoven monograms can be a struggle to decipher the letters let alone speculate on the order of them.


I suppose if you were wanting your own gun engraved with your initials, the answer would be however YOU want it to be.

my understanding of traditional mongram etiquette is the the middle letter in larger and represents the last/family name - then first on the left, middle on the right

none of my shields are engraved - I guess you would need an example that letters to the original buyer to see how Parker did it

.....ASH





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What if you never paid attention before, you have a gun with no references to the owners or PGCA records. My gun just has the three equal size initials. What comes first ,the chicken or the egg ??

I agree if one of the letters is larger& in the middle---most likely the family name.
Allan

As long as we are on the monogram subject, any thoughts on these letters from a DEO-Grade Remington --

Attachment 87155

Dave, I'm going with E F G


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In general...if all letters same size, first, middle, last.
As Mr. Dudley says, if middle letter larger it is first last middle.

I assumed you did not have an example - but I mention it because I bet more than one member does - so we just need them to share

Here's one that was ordered by Henry A. Bishop for his wife Jessie Alvord Bishop.

Double or triple click for best enlargement.


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