Looking for family guns...
 

Hi guys; I got my hands on grandfather's records, and I'd love to be able to find and pay to recover his guns.

They were auctioned off I believe in Pittsburgh PA in '89 or '90, and are as follows:

(if other descriptors are necessary, I can excerpt from his doc's; difficult to read however)

Parker B-Grade single barrel (12 Ga. ?) I gather; serno 145832 (this I'm told is not a correct #; it might be the # of one of 2 below, unk #)
B Murphy pointed out serno 145832 is on Frank LeFever's service order for a Parker BHE of Gramp's, so another gun to add to list here...

Parker 12 Ga Vulcan Grade, serno 92723

Parker 16 Ga, serno 235255 GH Grade (?)

Parker 12 Ga, serno 101235 Vulcan Grade

Parker 12 Ga, serno 85523 G Grade "BOHLER BARRELS" (DOUBLE BARREL ? ) Anton Sodia Ferlach Austrian made or modified

Parker Hammer Gun, serno 12252 Damascus Barrels, made 1876 - 78

Parker D Grade serno N139796 "Damascus Steel extra barrels" (?)

Parker 20 Ga, serno 202763 made 1922 - 23

L C Smith 12 Ga Field Grade serno unknown; may be in the company of others?

Fox Sterlingworth 16 Ga no serno; bought new 1933-34, Beavertail Forearm, also perhaps in the same company?

Ansley H Fox serno 27913, 12 OR 16 Ga "Automatic Ejectors, good BARRELS"

Any help, including reference to other boards would be helpful; thanks.

wow- nice selection

i wish you luck in your quest

Thanks OH...

I know very little about shotguns - never owned one (or a .22 in fact). Rifles, sidearms are more my interest.

But 2 stories on CMP Forum Boards last few years, where an individual was re-united with service rifle (both M1 Garands, 50+ years later), have given hope - especially considering low(er) profile nature of that hardware.

I'm guessing Gramp's hardware is of greater 'profile'; even if the owner(s) are not, the likelihood is higher of recovery (or even a pic) of one or more of these pieces.

Yeah - a haystack indeed. But there's 11 needles, and the web makes these BIG needles even bigger ;)

Your #145,832 shows up on another thread in a Lefever note describing a BHE double barrel Parker, not a single.

Did not notice Mr. Murphy; sharp eye. Another gun to add to the list, I suppose...

(and thanks for the heart palpitations too :p )

bumping here...

The OP's first post should also be in the Lost & Found thread...

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...ght=lost+found





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Checked my collection. Don't have any matches. Hopefully they are out there.

Your Ah Fox ejector is a 12 gauge.Bobby

Bumping again here...

Thanks for your service Spin Drift!

About 20 years ago I acquired a GH 12 from the original Joliet family that had it for 102 years. It was handed down from father to son for 3 generations then hit a daughter that couldn't have "evil guns" in the house. It was my fifth Parker and is my Talisman of what an unmolested original looks and feels like.

Fortunately my daughter wants my "Parkers" and she will get them when I finally depart this mortal coil. In the final analysis we are all just curators of these expressions of art and skill rendered in wood and steel to pass to the next generation who will cherish them as we do.

Spin

serno 145832 (this I'm told is not a correct #; it might be the # of one of 2 below, unk #)
B Murphy pointed out serno 145832 is on Frank LeFever's service

Book Shows a B grade, 32" bbls., straight grip ejector...definitely trap configured////That serial number isbefore SBT guns

You have expressed how all should feel about their Parkers in a much more elegant way than I could. I love the term curators. It's perfect. Curators have intimate knowledge of their works of art and protect them in the condition that they found them in unless a restoration is needed. And then minimalist techniques are used to correct issues and restore some of the glory of the piece.

My daughter is not a shooter per se but she wants some of my guns because they belonged to me and gave me so much pleasure. She considers them keepsakes. You and I are very fortunate Michael.

I consider myself the luckiest guy in the world. Great Pretty Wife and Daughter, good friends, loving family, good job and an affliction for some of the finest tools wrought by the human hand. Yup we're blessed.

Spin

Sounds like all is as well as can be Spin; really glad for ya' there!!! (were you Artillery? Brass? Or E-x? (I'm guessing Brass?) )

SBT SG's , MRay? I [think I] know sidearms and rifles pretty well, but know little of, and have never owned even, a shotgun... :o

(or a .22)