Parker Bros combination gun
 

I am new to the forum, I hope I am doing this correctly.
QUESTION: Did Parker Bros ever make a combination gun(16ga/rifle)
Thank you for any help!

Yes. Serial number 6999, was a two barrel set. One barrel was 20ga SxS, the other was 20ga x .44 cal. The frame size 00, didn't officially exist at that time, but the firing pin spacing of 6999 was 15/16".

The Parker Bros is 16 ga/33wcf
S/N is around 127995
Made in 1904, 1 frame
V Grade, Vulcan steel barrel
Is this a factory gun or custom built ?
A clue: a rear sight is placed over top of the Parker Bros top barrel engraving….
Doesn’t look factory
Thanks in advance for any help!

A PGCA Research letter may give you the information you’re looking for.





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The old adage "Never Say Never" often applies to Parker Brothers. That said, it is unlikely on a gun that late. Is the rifle barrel a solid barrel, or an inserted barrel? The Auxiliary Rifle Barrel Co, located a short distance from Meriden, in New Haven, was one of many in the business, and I've seen one, with the insert, documented as supplied to Parker for a customer. As you said, It's very unlikely Parker would have affixed a rifle sight atop the barrel legend. The more appropriate location, as seen on 2494, shown in The Parker Story (page 673?) is a tang mounted sight. The one shown is a Lyman sight. Also, note that 2494 had an insert in the left, shotgun barrel.

And it isnt an insert for the rifle barrel?

Photos would really help with this.

My suggestion is to provide photos of the water table, rib and the bottom of the barrel. i'm sure the members will be of tremendous resource.

Lining one (or both) barrel for a rifle cartridge was popular in the early 1900s; often to 45-70. .33 WCF was introduced in 1902
The seam and extractor modification should be apparent

https://photos.smugmug.com/Damascus/...20breech-M.png

https://photos.smugmug.com/Damascus/...20muzzle-M.png

Dr. Snavely in Maryland had a combo rifle-shotgun that was represented as factory. I don't know who owns that gun today. It has probably been pictured on this forum or in DGJ if you can find it.

The first time I visited Cody, the summer of 1980, there was a lifter 10-ga/.44 caliber that was identified as belonging to an army officer. That was about a decade before I began recording details of observations. I haven't seen it on subsequent visits. It was in the Buffalo Bill display, not the firearms area.