12 Gauge Lifter
 

Can anyone help me with a ballpark on what this thing is worth? I believe it is an 1881 grade 1. It has the straight stock and twist barrels. I have not found one just like it on guns america or gun broker. I have only seen a couple close to it, but neither of them had the straight stock. I have been researching and researching and researching :banghead: and just keep hitting dead ends. Does anyone know of a good appraiser near Houston, TX?

I'd guess 12D. I take pics the same way but I crop the piggies out, helps to get the image down to posting size. I think you are right on the grade; straight grips are not real unusual.

Yes, straight grip guns were more common on the earlier hammer guns.

i recently sold three similar guns for $500 each...sad, but that is the times we live in.

Well at least I don't feel like I robbed the guy anymore. I wish it was pre-civil war and I would let the museum have it for a while. I have an 1813 s/s as well that was used in the civil war by my great great grand father, and they wanted it, but I had to decline because they wanted to do a full restore on it, and I want to keep that one exactly how he had it.

a pre civil war Parker isn't out there

any pictures of the 1813 sxs? Who was the maker and is it still a flinter or was it converted?

I didn't know anything about them until after I got this one and started researching. I do have some pics, but they are on my phone, I will try to put them up later for you. It is a rust bucket, It is a neat family history gun that hangs on the wall. I can hardly read the brand and don't remember it off the top of my head.

nice gun j.... does j stand for junior...i new a fellow in my youth in the 50 s and 60 s name was junior huddleston lived in north east mississippi...thats were i still live... enjoy the lifter they were made to shoot... charlie

No sir. my name is Jacob. I wasn't around until the late 80's lol.