Bruce, the Robin Hood reps may have shot Parkers, but I don't think that trigger guard was connected to them. It was on a 0 frame GH16 that I bought out of Ontario, Canada. I had it for awhile before realized the serial number on the trigger guard matched the number on a skeleton steel buttplate that I was given a year or two earlier in Manitoba. I got a letter on the number and it was off a BH 12 that was made for a professional shooter named William M. Ferguson from Grand Forks, ND, who shot under the name Robin Hood. Bill Murphy was kind enough to share that information. Ferguson ordered it from W.G. Neilands and Company in Winnipeg and had it shipped directly to North Dakota. The butt plate came from a Winnipeg gunsmith that shut down in the mid 30's if I recall correctly. I would have liked to have seen that BH. Shipped in 1897 it lettered with the engraving, 30" Titanic barrels, Lyman sight, and a Monte Carlo stock.
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