I held off on the letter request until today. I waited for the shotgun to actually be paid for. It will be insured for the full amount, not that it means anything.
Being a later Lifter (fourth variety 1881-1907) it has all of the desirable design enhancements. Some of the improvements were the solid head plungers (firing pins), enlarged extractor, the addition of the check hook (a positive stop feature when the barrels are opened to the extreme).
By the mid 1880’s lifters were rarely made. The existing stock books show that only about 25 lifter guns were produced after 1890, though they were not dropped from the catalog until 1902. A total of approximately 25400 lifter-action Parker guns were made. The last one found in the stock book was made in 1907.
Information per TPS.
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Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss.
A current under sea picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell he passed the stages of his age and youth entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T.S. Eliot
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