GHE 12ga
 

SN 155,033, ordered by Charles E. Tisdall of the Burlington, Rock Isand and Chicago Railroad and sent to him in Vancouver,B.C. in 1911. Full and Full, 14 1/4 LOP, DAH 2 3/4, 7lbs 9oz.

Acquired in 2006 for $1800, added finish to stock, sent to Dale Edmunds for barrel refinish, $250. Gun had seen little use.

Used for waterfowl and long range pheasant.

AND ? Am I missing something here ?

Nice! Great wood for a G. Are you proofing it with the ammo in the picture?

No.
Those are duck loads.

No, I think Bruce is just a little bored today, and decided to post pictures of his GHE for all to see.

Just trying to get people back to Parkers. I liked Dean's wabbit hunting pictures, nice sporting subject. This isn't any kind of special gun, and it may encourage others to post pictures of theirs and participate. Like instead of thinking what did he post a picture of that plain gun for, maybe they think let me show mine and they post pictures.

I have plenty of work to do, like to take a break once in a while.

Nice gun Bruce. I really like the wood on most G grades. Seems it all has some decent burl or flame.

Lots of nice guns out there Richard and I think people like to see them, so I post pictures and hope it encourages others to do the same and maybe it urges them to get one or another one.

Years ago when I acquired my first and before Al Gore invented the internet and before there were these books about Parkers, I didn't even know what a high grade Parker looked like, and thought my little P grade was pretty fancy. Today its so easy for others to see hundreds of Parkers, know the details, know that they are useful today, and so by posting pictures of useful and decent Parkers maybe in a small way we keep Parker interest strong.

I LIKE IT :bowdown:

G-grade guns with damascus barrels are huge values. That's a nice one. What could be better?

Here's my Oscar Gaddy GH which I bought from John Swindell at the Sanford event a few years ago. John got it as a project gun and had Oscar and his wood man (Washburn I think) completely refinish it, lock, stock ane barrel. I think John got his investment back. It's a #1 frame 28" 12 choked .009 and .032; a great grouse and all around field gun. Oscar covered it with his "preservative" varnish which sort of hides the work he did. I'm tempted to remove it; so what if it fades, I'm kind of fading too. Sorry for the crummy photography.

That's some great wood on yours too Fred. If you use the gun from time to time you should remove the protective finish so you can both fade together. Unfortunately our dogs all seem to go before us but to go out together with a fine old gun.... well, what could be better?

Bruce...in the picture of the top of the barrels at the breach I see a round dot that looks like a filled screw hole? I know its not but why is it there? I had a early VH 16 with that exact dot??? thanks Kenny

Kenny,What you see in that picture is the business end of the screw that helps hold the dollshead rib extension.

Kenny,
That’s the screw that holds in place the rib extension. The rib matting usually hides it. On some early guns I've seen them with a flower engraved there.

You beat me again Dave.

Fred, a quality restoration. I like it. The trouble with most Parker restorations is that they are not true to the original. Yours is.

Do all parkers have that rib ext. screw? If so most are invisable? thanks Kenny

Yes, Kenny. That's how the rib extension is held on. You may need to use a 10x loupe. They are more difficult to see on blued guns and easier to see on damascus guns, but they are always there on doll's head guns. The very early hammer non dolls head guns had continuous ribs. I've not examined a later hammerless with the rare non doll's head, so I wouldn't know about those to know if they used a continuous rib or just had a rib extension piece without the doll's head. So, rib extension=screw head.

I'm using the term "screw" because that's what Dave used. I thought it was a post. Guess I need to get into the diagrams, and Kenny, the assembly diagrams show the structure. I'll bet Austin recalls.

Fred, I'll bet that my friend Jon Swindle would love to see that gun again. Jon bought a gun from me this past weekend, a nearly unfired Smith transition hammer gun with Syracuse frame. Jon's collector interest is mainly "Bill Murphy's Father's Guns", but he has a minor interest in L.C. Smiths.

Bill, Thanks for correcting my spelling. I was unsure, therefore should have verified. My apologies to Jon.

Fred

My GHE 1 1/2 frame 26" IC-M that I only bring out on special occasions.

Couple of G grades with nice wood
 

Lifter 10ga and a GH 20ga

I've got a nice G grade two damascus barrel set. Had the barrels redone at Bachelders and the checkering cleaned up. May have to sell it at our SxS Shoot to buy Rich Andersons Parker hammer gun. Wish I could post pictures as it sure looks nice. Paul

Robert, are those original case colors....? If not who redid them ? Looks very nice.

Kurt

Thanks Kurt, I bought it believing them to be original and those that have handled it thought so also. I would give it a 80 to 85% original condition case, bluing and wood finish.