Damascus Vent Rib
 

Does anyone know how many Damascus Vent Rib guns were made ? Thanks.

There is no table of vent rib guns that would tell us how many were installed on Damascus barreled Parkers. Not many, that's for certain.

i ve never seen one maybe somebody could post a picture of one...this would be a good find...charlie

Damascus Vent Rib
 

Dean, thanks for the information. I have been looking for any information but have found nothing, now i know why. joe

Rich Anderson has one he will probably show us again... Rich?

I saw one at last year's NE SxS that a member had. A real beauty!

CHE Ventilated Rib courtesy of the 'Gold Towel Guy'

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And Bernard Steel no less!

That is one beautiful gun, and very rare! Gary

I've been looking to purchase purchase one of several years and that slot in the gun vault is still empty.

Dean while I have several vent rib Parkers none are Damascus. Pack Puglisi had a DH/DHE I don't remember which several years ago and that's the only Damascus vent rib gun I have ever seen. I thought the addition of the vent rib came long after fluid steel barrels were the norm.

You're right Rich. A few must have gone back to have ventilated ribs retrofitted on composite barreled guns.

When did Parker Bros. first catalog a Ventilated Rib on a double?

Hunter Arms introduced the Double Barrel Trap gun in 1920, and the 'Trap Package' included a flat beavertail forend (Schnabel forend available in 1922) with the reinforced barrel lug, Automatic Ejectors, Hunter One-Trigger, standard recoil pad, and two ivory sights. The ventilated rib on the Double Barrel Trap was introduced in 1925.

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Francotte (imported by Von Lengerke & Detmold) and Greener Single Barrel Trap guns were introduced in 1895 I believe with ventilated ribs. Lefever introduced a SBT with a solid rib in 1905, but Baker was the first major U.S. maker to offer a ventilated rib on their SBT in 1909.

The Prechtel SBT first appeared at the Cleveland Cartridge & Target Co. tournament in Cleveland, Ohio June 1897

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Thanks Drew, for that bit on Prechtel. He was a gunsmith/gunmaker who received his training working for Lefever. He lived in Cleveland and was very innovative in the gun business. I am working on a story of a Parker Grade-6 t/a hammer gun he did some unusual work on.

Dean: I put my Prechtel infro down in the "Other Fine Doubles" section

Prechtel double courtesy of Tom Will

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Paker SBT's starting in 1917 had ventilated ribs. AHE 204548 was the first double to have a factory-installed vent rib and that was a 1923 gun. The 1923 catalog was the first to offer the ventilated rib.

Now doesn't that look just like a Lefever?

Thanks Drew.

There was a GHE 12ga "trap gun" that sold on the Cabelas website a couple of years ago that had Damascus barrels with a vent rib and they were also stamped overload proved if I remember correctly. I thought somebody on here bought it, it didn't sell for a lot of money.

The pictured Prechtel is a Lefever with Prechtel tweaking.

Or it may be one of the ones he built from scratch while at Lefever or had Lefever send him parts and components in Cleveland.