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Parker Rifled 12ga
Unread 09-27-2013, 09:32 AM   #1
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Default Parker Rifled 12ga

In the interest of encouraging interest in Parker collecting, showing again this wonderful and interesting Parker owned by a friend out here on the Great Plains.

A serial number 118 something 12ga CH 1 frame with two sets of fluid steel barrels. The stock is a numbered factory replacement. Rondel side panel engraving.

Barrels:

26" uncut with rib inscription " Mfg for C A Winship Palms California by Parker Bros". 12 with rifled bores. Numbered forend. Palms California was a small community between Beverly Hills and Malibu, now absorbed into greater L.A.

31" uncut with standard Parker rib inscription. Smooth bore. Second numbered forend.


There are a few Parkers known with rifled inserts into the barrels fitting 45-70 or other smaller cal cartridges. I know of no clear evidence that they were done at Parker Bros although they could have been. Although there is no documentary evidence that these 12bore barrels were rifled at Parker, IMHO the physical evidence makes it highly likely that they were.
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