Mercy, take a look at this one!
 

A 28ga. Parker Reproduction all tarted up in the same vein as some of the CSMC Foxes.
https://www.gunsinternational.com/gu...n_id=102153111

For the asking price of $20k I would have expected a little more imagination used in the checkering department. But it sure is pretty otherwise!





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I like it!
Bob Jurewicz

I like it too! Someone please buy it and put it under my Christmass tree

For anyone thinking of this gun... I bought a Merkel 1620C from Mr Worfe a few years ago. He was very good to deal with, and the gun exactly matched his description.

"Those wild and crazy Texans!!"

Well, Frank Pachmayr is no longer with us!!

In my opinion there was a lot of little things done that make it a little lacking as an overall custom package. My only gripe with the engraving is that all of the gold inlays are just way too big. If they were half the size it would be money.

Not my cup of tea.

I remember a few years ago at the Southern there was a 20g VH for sale in the small tent. Bob Jurewicz, you may remember looking at it with me. The frame was custom engraved and had an absolutely beautifully inlaid flying mallard on the bottom of it. The inlay was in full relief and very realistic. It was a little on the large side, but it was just so well done. And the rest of the engraving was top quality.
The whole gun was blued. And I cannot recall what was going on with the wood, I think it was still wearing the original wood, or maybe it was restocked. The stock does not stick in my mind. The gun was pretty cheap for the work that went into it, and for it being a 20g. Like $6000 or something. The worst part of the gun was the barrels. They had a ton of pitting on the outside and on the rib. And the breech face of the barrels had a lot of very deep pitting that was all blued over. It looks like the gun was allowed to get very rusty before it was picked as a platform for customizing.

It was a great example of high quality work done to a gun that likely was not the best starting point.

That was a little bit of a digression, but the large gold inlays on the subject gun reminded me of that 20g.