What is your earliest made and latest made Parker in your collection?
 

What is the earliest gun made in your collection and the latest gun made? My earliest is a Grade 1 Top Lever Hammer gun #54073 12ga 30 Laminate barrels made in 1890, my latest made is a CHE #173441 12ga 32" damascus #3 frame made in 1916, only a 26 year spread. I'm sure others have a much greater spread in years made. Here is a picture of the pair.

Beautiful Guns Craig!! Thanks for Sharing!!!

I will post mine when I can take some pictures!!

Bobby

A heavy 12-gauge 1889 GH mismarked E --

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A 16-gauge, VHE, December 1940 --

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Grade 3 12 gauge Top lever fishtail #49675 28" Damascus Cyl/Cyl, ordered October 3rd, 1886 and shipped March 3rd, 1887, in family since new, shot it yesterday on quail, have a few Parker Repros

1883 a top lever 10 (imagine that LOL’s) the latest is a 1937 VHE 12 skeet .

my earlist parker is the 11 ga I don't exactly remember the year made..my next gun is a lifter 10 ga made in 1875...I think my latest parker is a d grade 20 ga made in1904...charlie

This little 3 frame grade 2 10 ga I picked up last year #25357 1882 If I remember right.

What's your latest?

Craig I believe you used to have that 6 frame and it would be my latest at 1902. I'm pretty partial to it since it's somewhat of a local gun originally.

1874 11 gauge... 2422.... and nothing after 1900. Got a three digit somewhere, but unshootable. My baby is my 1879 lifter 20. Great thread!!!

My earliest is an 1884 Grade 1 top lever 12 GA hammer and my latest is a 1901 VH 12 GA.

The only one I have left....AH 16 gauge 0 frame 26" Damascus gun (1 of only 2 in the records). Shipped August 22, 1898 to a quail hunter in Tidewater VA. The gun was subsequently returned to Parker 3 times, first to restock with a straight grip, next to restock with a pistol grip per original order, lastly to fit a pair of Titanic Steel barrels. I have been searching for these barrels ever since!

My earliest is an 1883 #3 10 gauge with nice 32 inch barrels. The latest is an AH 16 6lb. 5 oz. gun made in 1927.

Earliest would be an 1881 12 Lifter, 32" gun with really nice wood.
Latest would be a 1939 GHE 16 ordered by A&F, it has what appears to be the original A&F case.

152 is the earliest. I’ve got one in the 139xxx sn range as latest, unless you count my Parker Repro.

The earliest Parker gun in my current collection is a back action lifter 12ga serial number 1248. The water table, forend iron and barrel lug shows it as 01248. This gun would have been made approximately 1873. The gun is shown in the Parker Story on page 87 and in the Identification and Serialization book on page 14.
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The highest serial numbered gun is 239842 a GHE 16ga Skeet gun which was likely made in 1937, but a Remington document from 1942 titled "Surplus Warehouse Stock" shows it was still in inventory at that time.
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I owned "T" latch serial number 70 made for Chas. Parker by the Meridan Manufacturing Company circa 1867. However I sold it years ago, so is no longer in my collection. Here is a picture of it from page 43 of Ed Muderlak's book titled "Parker Guns - Shooting Flying and the American Experience" followed by me holding it circa 1991.
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David, Your GH has a lot more case color than mine, although mine has some. Very nice!

1892 GH # 73198 with 30 inch damascus barrels and 28 inch twisted steel barrels (still searching for 2nd set of barrels)


1918 SC SBT with 32 inch barrels ordered by the DuPont Company for Col. E.G. Buckner.

My earliest is an 1877-1878 12g grade O lifter. My latest is my favorite clays crusher, a 1932 32" VHE live bird gun.

My earliest is a 12 GA Lifter made in 1880, Serial #17906

My latest is a 12 GA SC Grade SBT shipped November 11, 1938, serial #241262

1905 BHE & a GHE in the 242xxx range, 20 gauges of course.

Well, 1905 was a good year, for sure.:shock:

1895 GH 12 ga. 81801, 1919 VH 12 ga. 184076
I still have not mastered posting pics.

Jones, if you can email photos to me, I'll post them for you. I love folks' photos. My email is g.g2@aol.com

Here's Jones' very nice photo of his two guns.

1885 16 hammer gun..O frame with lightening cuts...

oldest-newest
 

1885 2Gr 10ga 30" Dam., 49703,
1931 GHE 16ga 26" Special Steel, 235828

Don't have them in front of me for numbers, but earliest is an 1874 10 ga lifter that would be, from catalog data, equivalent to a D grade. Latest would be a D gr 16 ga Damascus, a G gr 12 ga Damascus, or an N gr 10 ga Twist. The three are all right after 1900, but I think the N grade is the newest if memory serves.

We need pictures! (please)

Earliest - 1901 D grade 12 hammer with fishtail top lever bought from a member several years ago. One of my favorites.

A 1868 $110 dollar pin lifter S/N 63 with Laminated barrels and a 1938 1/2 frame VH 2 barrel set S/N 240647.

Hey, Chuck, you might get the award for the most years between guns!:bowdown:

Wait...we're not giving awards?!?!:banghead:

I agree, I think Chuck wins!

Here are mine...I have 2 earlier gun’s but they are not quite as nice as this #97 in 12b with laminated steel barrels. The other Parker is a 410VH made in 1927. A little over 222,000 guns apart…

While my 'little' 28ga VH is not my earliest gun, it is the first 24" 28ga.