What is this?
 

Any ideas? Bear?

Yes, a bear in my opinion.....





.

Head looks like a bear, body ?

Skinny and hungry bear or so it would seem

Something out of a Dr. Seuss book

It's a bear and looks like one that might appear on a very early gun, probably a lifter. I've seen similar engraving on such a gun.

Yes, an early grade 3 lifter. I feel like I’m being very particular when it can be so hard to find a graded hammer gun that I’m interested in, but that bear? just isn’t doing it for me.

Kirk, I get it, but I consider each phase of Parker engraving as a part of history— with its own charm. I like some more than others, and some engravers, skilled at scroll, have pretty poor drawing skills.

Very true that. And their knowledge of animals’ and birds’ anatomy was often lacking. Case in point, the very talented and very celebrated chief engraver at Remington, Robert Runge exibited poor anatomical understanding in some of his dogs and birds in the proper placement or angle of their legs and/or wings.





.

Grade 3 Sausage Bear = Grade 3 Turnip Bird = Beautiful, real human artistic input from 140 years ago.

"These guys are good":bowdown: Gary pinpoints the gun by a single picture of engraving.

How about a milk cow?

I can even see a very poorly done gargoyle here

I would have been a bad engraver ....you would think this bear looks good compared to one of my bears....charlie

Mike Koneski will give us the definitive answer.

Those early Parker engravers had wonderful imaginations!!

Gary has/had the "cow gun" and the "chicken thief gun" - Charlie has/had the "sailboat gun" and the "fisherman gun" - Dave Suponski showed us the "kick in the pants trapshooter gun" - then there was the early Lifter with a sloop towing a large fish with a frigate on the horizon...

There are just a lot of them and I have probably saved pictures of most of them. I love the engraving on Parkers of all periods!





.

chupacabra

First thing I thought of was the proverbial "flying turnips". Couldn't think of an adjective to use with "bear". Some of us refer to some of the "head up fox" or "head down fox" as "stoat". Maybe we could refer to these bear type images as "woodchucks"? :shock::corn:

Chupacabra

That's easy ,they were actually very common up here on the coast, before it came extinct from over hunting ,the delicious flesh was what got the earlier islanders throu the winters ...it's a cross between a wild baloney and salt water rabbit ...uncanny rendition,only possible through actually seeing one IMHO

That's a Chupacabra! They're very common here in Southern AZ along the Mexican border. We've seen them while hunting Mearns.....

Chris, AZ

Here from Google…


.

Definitely a black bear, not a grizzly (Ursus horriblis). The silvertips also had a more pronounced hump
above the shoulders. Another reason to carry a slightly heavier backpack in Glacier or Yellowstone NP,
other than just UDAP bear spray.

Damn … it is a Chupacabra! That’s big medicine.

A bear that just ate spicy Mexican food and looking back at his butt trying to figure out the burn and smell. One can see the results behind it. Similar to when I share human food with my lab and he lets go and can't figure out what just happened and looks backwards to figure out what in the heck was that.