Stamps on Parker Single Trigger Blade.
 

I have examined and photographed a nice little DHE skeet gun with a Parker Single Trigger and I need to be certain about the stamps on the side of the trigger blade.

The serial number is 236162 and it appears that the last three digits of the ser. no. are stamped - which is commonplace for smaller parts of a Parker Bros. shotgun. Maybe somebody can verify this for me as I respected the owner's wish and didn't take it apart or clean it.

The other stamp beneath that could be PB for Parker Bros. but not having examined others closely, I don't know for sure.

Hopefully somebody with experience in Parker Single Triggers can verify or dispel my assumptions.



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Can we see the rest of the gun please?

Yes, in the Summer Issue of Parker Pages.





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Any ideas Gentlemen?





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well - I agree its the last of the serial number

but it looks like there is an overstamp of couple letters on a different angle

maybe a "P" and another then a period

did you tell the owner you would be really really careful taking it apart? :whistle:

Dean it looks ok to me. If you want I'll take a closer look at my skeet guns but it looks good, give me a call or a pm if something really stands out to you Eric

There should be crossed P,s stamped on the trigger blade also Dean.

Dean, My SN 238528 shows the same mark in the same place, "Pt.", with no numbers visible.

Thanks Fred! That explains it. "Pt." Now to look that up in The Parker Story.



I searched for that stamp (Pt.) in TPS and couldn't find any reference to it at all.

So it's meaning is open to speculation I think...

Could it mean Parker trigger? A strange abbreviation for Patented? or Peerless trigger?

Any other thoughts or knowledge?






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its only one

so "Partial trigger"

Parker Tested or just a proof mark?

I checked my VHE 20 skeet and it has no markings on the trigger. My single trigger VHE 20 also has no markings but I have a DHE 12 single trigger, 198638, which has the crossed P's if that helps you.

Daryl, can you show us a picture of the crossed P's?






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Dean I pulled out my Remington era VHE Skeet configured Parker 12 gauge. It's in about 98% condition, hence not a lot of wear. I took a close up picture which I attached. It appears that it might be, Pt. I am guessing Parker trigger, but that's just a swag.

http://parkerguns.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1489798131

Weren't these triggers made by Miller? So if these in fact were not made at the Parker factory, could they be meaningful from a Miller Company perspective?

Dean,
These are the best I could take indoors tonight. You can find this mark, I think it's the same, in PP vol. 2, p580, image 14.11. By the way, still looking for the 30" barrels and forend that were ordered for this gun.

Thanks Daryl! That crossed P's stamp looks a lot like the Peerless barrel steel stamp on the barrel flats - which some may say look like crossed P's and some may say look like crossed flags.


No Jeremy, Miller did not make triggers for Parker Bros.
Further, Miller triggers were stamped with the name MILLER on the side of the trigger, not with a Pt. and the last three digits of the gun's serial number.






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Just checked my G 12 ga. Skeet and V 16 ga. Skeet, both have the Pt stamp.

Pt. Perfect trigger....Philadelphia trigger :whistle: lol


http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/a...psji6fjfsp.jpg










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Thanks Daryl. Those are the crossed P,s I was referring to. I would have posted a picture but the gun went to Michigan.

Is that not the same stamp I asked about when Julia's showed the detail photos of the 20ga A1S ?

Yup, that's the Peerless Steel stamp. What was the consensus when you asked before?





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No one replied.

I apologize....:violin:






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Whatever for? I am sure that you didn't see the question, because if you did, and didn't have an answer, you would have made up one to satisfy me.:bowdown:

wow.....





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That was in jest, right?

Yup it was





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