G grade engraving
 

Am new to Parkers having gotten the bug Oct 2014. Trying to learn as much as I can. Noticed old GH on some web site a few days ago that was unlike any G engraving I had seen. I am used to seeing G engraving with Parker Bros done in curve over the two birds and border engraving with what I would call a pinwheel around the screws heads. This gun looked like a P grade With the engraving around the screw heads with Parker Bros. engraved in a straight line like on V grade with two birds below. I may have seen that similar engraving on a old E grade. Was this common at the time or does this just happen to be different ? Dan

That is just an earlier style of engraving used on the G grades. Used in the first 10 years or so of Hammerless production. D grades of this time frame are different from later ones as well.

Thank you very much. Dan

If it didn't have the oval vignette with the two birds on the sides of the frame, or at least just two birds without the oval it sounds like a P that was misidentified as a G.

Very early GH grade guns did not have the Oval, but they still had birds.

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http://www.gunsinternational.com/gun...n_id=100580474

Here is a pretty minty example of the engraving subject in this thread.

That is I was asking about. The engraving was very similar to the GH I saw. One of the two birds almost always is a " looking back " bird. Dan

I am a big fan of early GH engraving