Question about a Parker
 

Has any one seen one like this it was manufactured in 1883. I noticed it didn’t have the obvious hinge pen and the Metal work on the receiver goes back on the stock a little further than normalAttachment 69731o

I fear this may be a Belgian shotgun with the Parker name, but not the pedigree.

I think Harry is right.

What would it be worth

Without better pictures, I'm guessing it was manufactured sometime in the late 1800s, by the JABC Gun Company.

It is some "trade branded" gun from the Crescent Fire Arms Co. factory in Norwich, Conn. from the 1900 to 1915 time frame.

That is a crescent. "Hardware Store" gun.

That one has been buffed out.

It is maybe worth a couple hundred.

I’m trying to post more pics

[ATTACH]Attachment 69745[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH][ATTACH]Attachment 69748[/ATTACH][/ATTACH]

Pics are on page one and 2. Now what do you think ?

It's an interesting old gun, but definitely not a real Parker, as in the gun made in Meriden Connecticut.

It seems from the stamping on that gun the Chinese did not invent stealing intellectual property!

I bought a 12 gauge Crescent recently for $50, tight lock up, checkered walnut. H.S.& B. Co., Chicago. Hardware store gun. Had my choke gauge with me and it showed modified and modified. The top lever spring was broken, which is just a tempered v shaped wire. Bought one from Numrich and bent, filed, and retempered it to fit. Now it turned out to be cylinder and cylinder because the bore was .710. "Choke bored" was an accurate description on the barrel! But this one had seen a hacksaw to 28". They were not bad guns back in the day, for the average working stiff.