Cased Parker
 

Getting us back to nice Parkers, here is a little cased 20ga with 32" barrels.

Now I gotta wipe my desk off where I was drooling on it. Super fine looking.

Very nice! Your guns?

No, I had it in the safe for a while, but this one belongs to one of these three fellows.

A wonderful A1S. Thank you for showing us.

May we know the provenance of that Parker?

I'll ask when the owner is available. I think he might be a little busy today interviewing for the top position at NPR, a change of culture, that sort of thing.

I had saved my money to buy a gun like this.Finally had enough but bought a new Lincoln instead at the same price.My mistake..Bill

:biglaugh:

Wow;
What a gun.

Not fair, why can't I find something like that, she's beautiful with long legs, I meant barrels, too!

She's puurrrdy.:cool::cool:

Speaking of Cased Parkers...

A fellow e-mailed these pictures quite a while ago asking about the rarity of a PHE .410...

I said that Ed Muderlak's book Parker Guns the Old Reliable suggests there was only one but then I heard there might be another... who really knows for sure...? "Unique"? "Exceedingly Rare"? Either adjective might describe it sufficiently.



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In his attention to detail Marvin never forgets to get all the screws into proper alignment.

We do know that there is one made up PH 410 that was auctioned at Julie's 5 or 6 years ago (same year that we had the annual meeting in DC) there is another floating around (Midwest maybe) that is suppose to be near mint but and it is a real big "But" won't letter....:eek: Ed said he had heard about 4 PH 410's not sure if the Julia's and the rumored gun above were part of his estimate, we only talked about it once. Eric

The PH/E .410 chase is a rare one indeed. Of the 3 definitely known to exist (e.g., able to be held in hand and examined), one is indeed a righteous gun that came out of New England via Virginia and now resides in the Midwest. The second gun is freely admitted to be an upgrade (not a 'fake') - whereabouts unknown - and the third gun is (presumably) the one that "won't letter". Ed's reference to a 4th gun came out of a rumored "deal in the works" involving a longtime Parker collector who tried to "coax" it out of the proverbial second floor hall closet in a row house up in the PA coal country. Nothing ever came of the deal; the collector still maintains its "real" but can provide no details and reprortedly was never able to make any progress on getting the owner(s) to set a price.

I saw a PH 410 in Sanford, NC my first year attending the Southern in either 05 or 06. I can't remember if it was an ejector gun or not, but seem to remember some speculation as to it's originality.

Unfortunate as it is, there always seems to be a certain amount of 'speculation as to originality' concerning rare of high condition guns. There are those who would intentionally dupe the collecting community in every field, however, they are few and a serious collector like the fellow who sent me these pictures, is always careful enough to not get duped.

Rich I think that was the Julia's gun that they were showing before the auction.

The P 410 in the A&F case shot a Kansas pheasant last fall. Its a nice gun.

Parker Case
 

Hi Kevin, thanks for your post & info on "Original" Parker Cases, I have one but can not identify the manufacturer, any comments/help.

Joe

The confusion about P Grade .410s is caused by the lack of identification of specific guns. This confusion would be eliminated if the individual guns were identified by serial number or some other identifying feature. Mr. Gabriel makes an attempt to do this in his interesting book.

Pictures would help Joe.

Is gun still for sale , if so I am intrested.

Ron Moore

I didn't see any guns listed for sale on this thread :confused:

A beauty for sure ! :shock:

As Dean mentions: ???

Returning this old thread to the top in the interest of Parker collecting.

Fine Parkers are still out there.

Do the two different numbers stamped on the flat relate to the Whitworth steel Tubes, and did they put a Serial # (or partial) anywhere on the flat? absolutely beautiful.....

The gun serial number would be on the side of the barrel lug and matches the SN shown in the photo of the trigger guard. The Jos. Whitworth barrels are individually numbered and stamped on the barrel flats.

By way of general comment, there is a list of about 70 known correct A-1 Specials. It is widely believed that there are more Parkers upgraded to look, more or less, like an A-1S than there are correct guns, although I can't say whether that is true or not. I don't know of any list compiled of upgraded guns, some of which are easy to determine, others not so.

Thank you Bruce, what a piece of artwork that gun is. Does the book list W8 as 37count ? very nice.

Thank you Mr. Day,
I search here daily for the pictures you post. Wonderful "dream of" guns and great insight.

Thanks again,
Larry Mason

Thank you Bruce. That is a dream gun.