Killer "C"
 

A lifetime in a duck boat, obviously the bottom of the boat. This gun came in in less than 15% condition. I don't have before pictures due to our policy of not posting customers guns unless requested.
It required every trick of the trade to save it. The unique engraving is what caught my eye, well worth saving.
The case colors, when done the way that Parker did it, add depth and background to the engraving.
30 inch titanic barrels with ejectors and mirror bores. I believe this is what this CHE looked like 100 years ago.

Brad

Wow! Really nice job Brad.

I saw that gun before restoration. That is an amazing transition!

Gorgeous!

Too bad on the before pictures, always a pleasure to see the comparison.

Wow!:shock:

Nice. I wish it was mine.

Well done Mr. Bachelder!

I assume this CHE was worse than a certain AH I know you are working on!

I can't wait to see your work on that one...

I would have to search my memory very hard to remember another restored gun with the "streak" as good as that one.

Ray

The streak and the transparency are exceptional on this one. Good eye.
Brad

Wow.....

Exceptional is an understatement!

I'll say it's unique - first (attributable) Anschutz engraved gun I've seen depicted like that.

Very nice job Brad!





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Dean
I recall a similar C with a singular wood duck on the triggerplate. It would be interesting to know how many other singular bird engravings exsist.
Brad

Brad, I was just looking at a picture I have of that gun today.

This one is a CHE 20 ga. with roundel engraving to boot!!

Each one is unique and I'm sure not more than a handful had the pheasant, wood duck, or any singular gamebird engraved on the floor plate...



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A work of art. Well done Brad:bowdown:

I recall a flying mallard on one. Then there is the C grade Jim Hall calls Big Bird.

Outstanding work Brad !!!

This is making me reconsider doing my B-grade you have.

Brad, I am liking the look of that C. I can only hope that my "rust bucket" CHE will turn out as nice.

Brian

Very nice Brad. You outdid yourself once again.

Beautiful job Brad ,I love the case color !

Beautiful work Brad. Goes to prove once again that there are "C's" and then there are "C's"! Wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

John

Love the phez on the floorplate. Don't think I've seen that before. Gorgeous work Brad. Bravo...

Brad - PM sent.





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Nice job Brad, beautiful, even if its not a hammer gun! gary

I wish mine had any bird on the floorplate. It's got some facsimile of an antlered animal of some extinct species.

I feel lucky I got 4 birds on my bottom plate.

Great Colors !!!, thanks for sharing .

Brad that is amazing. We're the bores spared the neglect or did you have to clean them up?

Mike
The bores had to be honed but we did not have to bore them. dozens of dents and scratches, but they all came out.
The stocks and checkering were the worst.

Dean, how is the gun attributed to Anschutz?

Yeah, I must have missed that chapter. How do we do that. Wonderful gun. Thanks for all the great pictures.

Brad....you really have the case color work perfected! Everyone knows that is no easy feat. You have a gun to be proud of....SXS ohio

Kevin,

Frederick Anschutz was chief engraver for Parker Bros from 1911 to when he died at the Parker Bros. Gun Works in 1930. After he died the dogs engraved in the style shown in Brad's pictures disappeared. Further, Anschutz' dogs were nearly always depicted as decidedly 'male' and the reason I made note of the dog's on the gun Brad shows as being the first I've seen like that is because those dogs are decidedly 'female'.

Frederick Anschutz was an exceptional engraver and did much nicer work on grades higher than the DHE and CHE shown here.

This is what we usually see in the way of 'male' dogs on D and C grade Parkers engraved by whom I believe was Frederick Anschutz.





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I (we) could probably understand this a lot better if we knew the SN of the gun Brad is showing. If the "male style" dog disappeared after Anschutz died, who did the "female style" dog on Brad's restored gun that you are attributing to Anschutz?? Or are you simply assuming that both styles are indeed his work absent direct reference via Stock or Order Book notation(s), e.g., "see Anschutz" under 'engraving'? I'm confused here.

Compare the style of the engraved dogs - obviously done by the same hand.

There is no documented evidence of what I'm stating about the engraver and of these particular dogs but I've studied this particular engraver's style for a number of years and what I've stated is my conviction alone. I'm not afraid to be wrong, but I'll need to be convinced of it.





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serial number 199078, 1922

Brad

I would like to say thank you to our members for the nice comments and shared enthusiasm.

Brad

Brad - a big Thank You to both yourself and the owner of such a fine Parker, for allowing all of us to enjoy it.





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