Mine was a 12 gauge VHE, two barreled set, in a saddle leather trunk case that was covered with the old time ocean liner shipping labels. This was at the Syracuse gun show, two weeks after 9/11. I was talking with a friend at his show table when an elderly couple stopped with the case and asked my friend if he could appraise it for them. They opened the case and he said it looks like a Parker and my friend Bill here can probably give you a value as he collects them. I took the gun and its' two barrel sets out of the case looked them over. It was obvious that the gun spent much of its' life in the case as it was easily a 95 percent gun--colors, bluing, and wood finish. The first set of barrels were the normal 30" full and full. The second set, properly numbered "2" were original 25" barrels with what appeared to be improved and modified chokes, using a plug gauge. The 25 inchers were right as rain with keels and matting end line. After looking everything over very carefully and explaining to the couple what they had, I told them the set was easily worth $3,000. They smiled happily and then asked If I would like to buy them. For some idiotic reason, I passed. Where are you going to find a 2 barreled set with a set a 25 inchers????? Later in the show I saw the set on another dealer's table. Argh!!!
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