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Unread 12-07-2016, 06:52 AM   #4
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Well, the 1/2-frame wasn't developed until Remington owned the Parker Gun Works so it can't be a 1/2-frame. Your gun is however from an era when 'standards' as we know them today had not yet been fully implemented. We see similar variances from the norm in other guns made in that period. A 20 gauge lifter owned by member Tom Latham comes to mind. The spacing between centers of the firing pin holes, as I recall are closer together than on a 0-frame and we know that the 00-frame hadn't been developed yet. I have only ever examined two such 20 gauge guns, the other having been owned by Austin Hogan.
That is certainly the era of anomalies... but, as I stated, the development of 'standards' was in its youth - if not its infancy.
I am not aware of Parker Bros. ever having made the 12 gauge on anything smaller than the 1-frame... but again, it is an early gun.






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