Parker Print Block
 

I recently came into possession of several printer blocks (copper) of shotguns, one is of a side by side Parker shotgun - shown in great detail. Does anyone collect items such as these? Pictures are available.

Rick Losey has one of a Parker hammerless. He bought it at a small flea market, if I remember correctly.

Rick, can you show us the picture again please?





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sure - here is mine- it is the block for one side of the hang tag

i found it in a box of printing blocks in an antiques co-op near Syracuse NY


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Sherman - please send me a picture of your block, please check your PMs- ( the link for them is in the upper right of the forum's web page)

I used these printing blocks on letter press's then went to offset printing spent 42 years in the trade,I have one printing block with a Remington cartage UMC 30 cal. soft point. J.J.

Printer Block
 

Several of the Printer Blocks I came into possession of are of an early Remington Take Down Boy's rifle. There is so much history behind these blocks, I have nine, but am keeping two for my "Man Cave" and will sell the remainder. I can only imagine how difficult it would be to get a quality product using them.

Take Care,
Sherman

That is incredible. Thanks for sharing!

Being in and from the South, I have never hunted grouse. But maybe that is just as well, I live for Quail hunting in the Plantations of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Someday, perhaps I will go north. Ya'll are just having too much fun.

This is a parker print block I bought on the silent auction several years ago.

take out the shells and its the same one as Sherman's

That was a good one Jeff. I remember seeing it there. The photo does not do it justice as to how much detail it has.

I have one, its a Belgium Parker hammer gun.
Double click to enlarge and see detail.
Still looking for an ad where it was used.

Off topic sort of. But what about roll marking dies. Does anyone have any of those. Certainly in the later production days they must have moved away from engraving.

Roll dies were used on the lock plates of hammer guns on the very lower grades for a relatively short term.





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And roll dies were pretty much always used for the makers marks on the ribs. Except for some cases where they were hand engraved.

I believe Turnbull has a few of the original roll dies for the ribs.

I thought ribs were rolled for at least part of the time. I think there an old PP article maybe by Austin?

As Parker Bros phased into roll dies for the ribs, hand-engraved rib legends were mostly phased out, with exceptions.
There is a very informative section on rib markings in The Parker Story and there has been at least one In-depth article on the subject in Parker Pages. These two resources will tell us everything there is to know on the subject.






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This is all I could find on "rib" search of our index, maybe that is what is being refered to.

1996 articles:

Parker Bros. Barrel Steel & Rib Markings by Oscar Graddy

Rib Marks - Update by Ron Kirby