|
01-15-2014, 07:46 PM | #3 | ||||||
|
The full serial number is 78638. The main page is where I entered the serial number and got the date of 1893. I'll check that again and see if I can get further info on tracing the history of the gun. Thanks
|
||||||
01-15-2014, 07:58 PM | #4 | ||||||
|
It books as a 12ga DH grade with 28 inch damascus barrels and a capped pistol grip stock. Click on Parker ID through FAQ links as well as Parker Letter link. You should get the basic stuff there.
|
||||||
01-15-2014, 08:10 PM | #5 | ||||||
|
You guys are great...... and fast with replies. Thanks. I'll post the progress. Family history (as accurate as family histories go) has the gun as owned by a plantation owner in South Carolina who was a famous actress, who sold the gun to my uncle. Will be interesting to see if the family history has any resemblance to any existing Parker records. Thanks.
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to HerbMoore For Your Post: |
01-17-2014, 06:18 PM | #6 | ||||||
|
That will be interesting. Which plantation? I have the history on most of them.
Best Regards, George |
||||||
01-21-2014, 08:27 AM | #7 | ||||||
|
George, the plantation is Hutton Plantation. It is about 25 or 30 miles south of Charleston off US Highway 17, once owned by Barbara Hutton. Beautiful place with the main house on a high bluff overlooking the river.
|
||||||
01-21-2014, 12:17 PM | #8 | ||||||
|
Mills
Are you familiar with that one? I am not but, obviously that would not have been the original name. David |
||||||
01-21-2014, 12:30 PM | #9 | ||||||
|
Yes I am. That is right next to my Uncle Hugh's place on the Edisto River. The Huttons also owned a place on the Combahee River
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to Mills Morrison For Your Post: |
01-21-2014, 10:49 PM | #10 | ||||||
|
Would that uncle be Hugh Lane? My father-in-law has known a Hugh Lane for years and I remember being introduced to him at one plantation years back. Interesting.....
|
||||||
|
|