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Its a grade 1 with laminated steel barrels on a 1 frame. Book says L1 12ga., pistol grip top lever with 32" bbls.
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08-19-2015, 10:14 AM | #4 | ||||||
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L1 is a Grade 1 with Laminated Steel barrels. The Grade 1 is also known as the P Grade in gauges up to 12 ga.
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08-19-2015, 11:19 AM | #5 | ||||||
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Seems to be a nice, solid Grade 1.
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08-19-2015, 11:38 AM | #6 | ||||||
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As I understand it, the P grade designation came well after the manufacture of this great gun. Your gun is a "Grade 1".
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08-19-2015, 01:13 PM | #7 | |||||||
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These hammer gun letter grades in Quality 1 seem to be very confusing. The Parker Story lists them as being I, K, L or M and N, O, P or Q; and then lists the Quality 0 hammer guns as being R, S, T or U. By the turn of the century the only Twist barrel hammer guns in the blue catalogue are R, S, T and U. Later just R and T and finally only T-Grade. |
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08-19-2015, 04:48 PM | #8 | ||||||
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Yup, Dave is right. The "grades of many colors", grades 0 and 1, were in effect in 1884 when this gun was made. Rereading TPS, Volume 1, Price and Mullins state that they had only examined one Grade 1 hammer gun with "1" markings on the water table. They didn't mention how many hammer guns they had examined with a "P" stamped on the water table, but I have only seen one of those. They state that 0 and 1 grade hammer guns with the grade stamped on the water table are seldom encountered.
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08-19-2015, 08:24 PM | #9 | |||||||
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My 8 gauge hammer gun, shipped in 1894, is marked with a P on the water table but the factory letter states that the order book lists it as a grade 1.
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