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I was wondering how many different butt plates Parker made. On my 12 ga hammer made in 1877 the butt plate has a dog with bird in his mouth. Ive seen others with just a dog. Also i'm wondering what material mine is made of.

From what I know, there are at least 5 variations of the dog's head marked Parker Brothers and one marked Parker on Remington Parkers. These are made from hard rubber a.k.a. "gutta percha" Very early guns had a solid steel butt plate and then there is the skeleton steel butt plate used on some higher grades. If memory serves me, there is also a checkered version with no butt plate - just wood?? Stand to be enlightened if there are other variations or any erroneous info here.

There are good examples in the Parker Story forget which volume

Some one else ask a similar question a few years back ,it has taken me a while to locate this but I knew I had it in the old hard drive ! Taken from the Parker Serialization Book ! Russ

The early hammer guns had a plate that is brown instead of black. Like the first photo. Does this mean they are made from a different material?

Parker butt plates were all made from gutta percha except maybe some of the last Remington plates. some of these early plates have turned a brown hue with age. Some fellas on here have devised some ingeneous ways of restoring the original color.

Hi Dave ,I know some one will get a kick out of such a stupid question ,BUTTTTTT What exactly is " Gutta Percha " and does anyone know of any other applications for it ? Okay you can laugh now !!!:rotf:

More than you may want to know about gutta percha

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There ya go Russ....Thanks for the link Jack!

Hows that go ,We should learn something new every day , well , just hang around here a while ,YOU WILL !!