Bird Identification On DH Floorplate
 

Hello all,

I’m looking into purchasing a DH and came across one with these birds on the floorplate. I was wondering if anyone knows what these birds might be. Me being new to the world of Parker’s might be a standard bird that appears on parkers, but I'm not sure if I’ve seen these. They might be obvious but for some reason I can’t figure it out haha! Thanks everyone!

Well they're not bobwhite quail and they're not ruffed grouse or woodcock and they're not waterfowl or shorebirds. And they're not ringneck pheasants and they don't look like prarie chickens or scaled quail and they're not passenger pigeons or mourning doves either. There's not much else left... could they be sharptail grouse? Or are they just a figment of the engraver's imagination...? Some are easy to recognize while some others defy identification... your guess is as good as mine... probably better.





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I’m glad that I’m not alone! Thank you so much, Dean!

Pin-tailed Sandgrouse.

They are archetypes, not any specific species. It’s part of the charm of Parker engraving throughout most engraving periods.

3 hens and a Drake

Gambel's Quail or Mountain Quail. The top knot on a Mountain Quail is straight where a Gambel's Quail topknot is curved forward, so this is probably a rendering of a Mountain Quail.

It's a turducken

Possibly a Black pheasant.

Austin, I think those birds on wonderful, and somewhat unique. If that DH is otherwise good, I'd go for it just because of those birds. Do you know the timeframe for the gun? I have a guess.

The now extinct flying turnip? Seldom have I been impressed by the engraving on the sides of Parker D's or C receivers, but never have I seen engraving on a floor plate with birds of a species that are identifiable.

Peacocks or possibly the elusive winged-turnip.

Red crested rip-snorters.

Possibly the hairy-chested nut-scratcher or the reclusive double-breasted mattress-thrasher?

I think I ran into one of them thrashers in a bar on the lower Eastern shore of MD.:shock:

You guys kill me when you talk aesthetics. :rotf::rotf::rotf:

They have a resemblance to guinea fowl, perhaps ordered for an African hunt?Or on second thought African turnips.

nope - not a peacock - it looks nothing like the big one I could barely miss hitting with the truck a few days ago on a back road in upstate NY

glad I didn't kill it - but on the other hand - would have been a lot of tying material :corn:

Generic “flying creatures” :whistle:

Hahaha thanks everyone! The tuffs on the top of the head are distinct and the artist made sure to make the wings very distinct as well with the speculums almost like ducks (but obviously not ducks).


1894 is the manufacturing date.

I would have guessed '93.





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Hey, I guessed pre-‘95, but you’re the expert.

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They remind me of African guinea fowl.

Allan

Look like regular ol "Yard Birds" to me, the kind you find on the white house lawn! Gary

That's when there was still cocaine in the coca-cola.... Which might explain the artistic license in engraving those birds......

Looks like three hens $%*#ing at a drake, probably because he had chore'n to do and went hunting instead.... :D

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I think they’re guinea

Too much tail I think, for guineas.





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