You are helping me establish a view, buying Parkers from people with the dreaded internet access can be difficult as most of you know. First off they assume every Parker is worth $$$$$$, then they go to the most expensive gun that looks something like theirs and say yep I want $3000 for this PH....or they might go to the Gunbroker Auction on the Turnbull restored gun and say my hammer gun looks like that! Yep its rusty with a cracked stock and I am missing the left hammer but I want $4000. I don't take issue with it but if it's something interesting to me I try to give them a somewhat educated response backed by some facts that they can rationalize with. You buy more Parkers by being genuinely nice, helpful, reasonable and I always end with "good luck with your sale even if its not to me". Most of the sellers I have met don't care about the gun they have sadly enough, a lot of them are recent inheritances and they just want to turn the value of the gun into a nice shiny new Benelli/Beretta/Tikka/Sako. I would give my left ??? to have a family gun passed down to me. The other large group of sellers are "flippers", they catch something from a friend of a friends family who have no idea what they found in the closet but just want it out of the house. They are just turning and burning them as fast as they can. Then the minority is a gun from a fair honest long time owner just looking for a good home that understands the market and is a realist, these guys become friends and also stay in touch with you when they hear of another Parker for sale.
Every little bit helps, after all its only been 4 years since I made my first mistake buying a Parker to keep.....15 (I think) guns later here I am.
Oh yea the topic at hand, this gun I think is worth between $1000 and $1500 to me after listening in and going on my previous experiences. On a real good day it might bring as much as $2000 to the right person.....maybe a bit more.
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