Consecutive Serial Numbers
 

I am curious. If you came across a nice Parker for sale that has a consecutive serial number with your favorite Parker that is a family gun, would the serial number make any difference to you to purchase it? The Parker found matches it's letter exactly but is a different grade, gauge and is hammerless not a hammer gun like your favorite. It wasn't ordered by the same person either. I'm just wondering what others think.

I passed on a gun same as this now if was the same gun and all yes, I would buy

If I liked and could afford I’d purchase . If it didn’t appeal to me I’d leave it alone .

Well we know someone who believed so....

Gary Carmichael owns a AA Hammer gun and found a consecutively serial-numbered AAHE hammerless and he bought it and they now reside in the same custom made oak and leather case.





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I think owning consecutive serial #'d guns is neat, but that's just me:)

I own two set's of Ithaca NID's that are consectively #'d, 2 fully optioned 4E 20 gauges and then a 3E and 7E 12 gauge. Often wondered if they shared time on the work benches up there in Ithaca, probably did. I really need to do letters on the the 2 - 20's, maybe ordered together.

Don't own any consecutive Parkers, hopefully some day.

I fanagaled a VH 20 32” from a friend a month or two ago . He bought it with another VH 20 32” at the same time and they are consecutive number guns .

I own a 20 gauge with serial # just preceding a 12 gauge that I know of that is for sale.

Problem is that 12 gauge was owned by a famous skeet shooter who ordered a PAIR of 24" barreled, 12 and 28 gauge, consecutive numbered Parkers. The current owner does not want to break up the set! :)

I never had a 24” skeet gun , oh wait you didn’t mean me :rotf::rotf::rotf:

I had the opportunity years ago and passed. I’ve moved on but every now and then something like this thread pops up and I get a little twinge of regret. I think if it makes you happy, gives you something to talk about and show to your buds then why not. Just don’t overpay too drastically because then you taint the nectar.

Unless they were originally ordered together as a pair for the same customer, then it really does not add any value. Except for those who may think it is neat and have the desire to have two guns with consecutive numbers.

Some years back I bought a 16 gauge Parker hammer gun. About two years later I bid on and won another 16 gauge hammer gun. When I got it home and was logging it in my data base I noticed it was consecutively numbered to my earlier purchase.

I'd sell them as a pair and ask a bit more...but then, I never sell anything.:crying:

I have 79355 and Dave Miles has 79354, both GH 16's on the 0-frame and never the twain shall meet.
We have discussed trade/swap/sell but no dice.

I really like how radically different Gary’s consecutively numbered pair is.





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Brett Hoop and I have consecutive GH 16s...

I own consecutive numbered Parker Reproduction Sporting Clays Classics. They were found 2230 miles and 10 years apart. Scarce in that there were only 125 of this particular model ever built and rare in the fact that they are the only two SG, SPL, DT SCCs that I have found in nearly four decades of actively seeking them out.

Well I have 12 sxs 4 Remington 870 Two 1100 2 Sakos and two sig 226 and 2 gun safes ect, ect, just to name a few WHY because I have TWO sons at ieast they will have nothing to fight about on my gun collection when Im gone.A old man told me once except for my wife Anything wourth haveing is woutrh haveing two of !

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Most interesting thing for me is seeing the difference in the work done by one journeyman engraver compared to the other on sequentially numbered examples.

Clearly working from the same pattern for Grade 3 - but not the same.

Both are 12 gauge on 1 1/2 frames.

Noticing that I prefer one guy’s work over the other.

To come back to the original question, you had me at “a nice Parker for sale”… when that happens, I have to find a way to decide I’m not wanting it.

I realize this thread is on consecutive serial numbers. But, here’s another oddity in the Parker world, this one involving Parker Reproductions that a member had shown us in the past; two 12ga. Repros with the same serial number! One a DHE Steel Shot Special, the other a standard DHE.

Jay Oliver and I have two lifters that are two serial numbers apart.

Years ago, I bought two 16ga 0 frame top levers from Jerry Smith. I can't remember their SNs right now, but they were one gun apart. I looked for years for the one in between, with no joy. I passed them on to two members here. What shows up at Rock Island a few months after I sold them. Yup, you're right.

Not so long ago I owned 74443, 74446 and 74625 all at the same time. All Grade 1 T/A 16's with fishtail levers and Laminated Steel barrels and all were very nice guns!





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My two consecutively numbered 16s were purchased from Rock Island a couple of years apart.

Such a situation has just popped up. An Ithaca NID No. 4E 12-gauge, 26-inch, just listed on GI, one number off from a No. 4E 16-gauge, 26-inch, I bought from Randy Shuman 36 years ago.

Go for it Dave!





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So Dave, does the serial number of the gun for sale increase ithe gun's value in your eyes?

What actually interested me was all the information the seller had on the gun being begun in 1941 but finished up and sold after WW-II to Blish, Mize & Silliman Hardware Co. in Atchison, Kansas.

Walter could find no info in the records he had for my gun.

I already have a 12-gauge No. 4E 26-inch vent rib skeet gun that I call my Bill Clinton gun. As a government employee in D.C. we got inauguration day off, and I rode down to Green Top that day and found the No. 4E skeet gun.

No. The gun does appear to be a nice high condition late NID though. My 16-gauge has the options of the SST, recoil pad and twin ivories, but no beavertail.

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I have 2 T shirts that came off the production line together, just sayin' lol

And does the serial # on those T shirts tell you which sweat shop they were produced in?
Maybe date of manufacture:corn:

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Here is a photo of the consecutive serial numbered gun l just purchased next to my cherished family hammer gun. The guns were ordered 14 days apart in 1905 and shipped a month apart. One was ordered on the east coast, the other on the west coast. One is a 20 gauge, the other a 28 gauge. The 28 gauge was part of a two gun order with both guns identical except for the initials engraved on the shields. I figured I didn't own a 28 gauge and the chances of finding a consecutively numbered gun put this purchase in the "it was meant to be" category.
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Wayne, That is a fine pair to say the least, Hammer and Hammerless consecutive numbered guns are hard to find, especially with that steel barrel C grade, which is I think is the only one made! Gary