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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland
next time i see a good parker big gun with color i will call you bill...hope thisdontdisapoint you boys but back in january in tupelo miss seen a 16 ga hammer gun that was nice go for 800.00 wish i had met the owner before he sold it....new owner would not talk about selling it...it was the least amount of wear on a parker that ive seen...gun not used enough to even open good....seen a nice no 2 lc smith with factory 27 inch barrels ejectors and the gold bar on barrels with best wood on a no2 i ever seen .. it had been refinished but it was not overdone...price 3600.00 a heavy duch model 12 winchester withlots of oringal color had 32 inch barrel 3 inch gun.... 1500.00 for this one....i know somebody that would have liked this one besides me.... francis it was nice....what a time to be broke.... charlie
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-- Any `12 gauge M12 with original 32" barrel, whether plain or with solid rib will command a premium over the same conditioned M12 with 30" barrel- very few made, and most were in the 3" Magnum configuration-according to Riffle's M12 book- Charlie- a 2E 12 Smith with 27" barrels and a gold inset bar- usually on the quality pre-1913 Smiths you didn't see the gold bar inset in the top rib until you bought a Pigeon Grade- Did you get a chance to mesure the barrels and look over the gun? Smith did offer either 26", 27" or 28" barrels on their Skeet Special 12 gauges, but that was in the 1930's- they also then offered the HOT in either selective or non-selective mode- A good friend has a 12 FWE Skeet Special with 27" barrels, HOT selective, straight hand stock, checkered butt, and the later bulky schnabel style forearm.