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Pictures will be useful. In focus is important. Close-up detail is useful. If you are comfortable to remove the barrels, then pictures of all the stampings on the metal will be helpful.
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09-25-2009, 07:06 PM
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An early PH 12 gauge in what sounds like very well worn condition might sell for $500-600 cash at a gunshow if the barrels are in shootable conditions (many aren't...) These guns are not rare, not very collectible but they are Parkers.
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10-02-2009, 10:06 PM
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A PH that has been handed down through the family and has little monitary value might be something to hang on to. It is worn and shiny from the hands of your ancestry. Not something I would want to hide or try to refresh. Just something you might want to think about. The rest of us have Parkers because someone in the "family" let them go. Not many here purchsed one new. For myself, I would rather have a Parker with honest wear than one that has been restored.
Kindest, Harry Last edited by Harry Collins; 10-03-2009 at 08:28 AM.. |
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12-06-2009, 05:06 PM
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I have my great grandfather's Parker, 12 ga., double barrel hammer gun. Serial # 2080; approx 1874. I need the right hammer, or a pair that will replace. Hammer Screws too, if anyone has them.
As a young, dumb, kid, I played with it constantly, and lost the right hammer down between the floor boards of my attic bedroom. I was afraid to tell my dad. Now at the age of 63, I know my dad would not have been mad; he would have taught me how to fish for it with a hooked piece of wire. |
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12-06-2009, 09:55 PM
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Rogross, you need to go to the attic and lift that floor board and retrieve the hammer.
Myself and the minister's son, who was my best friend when I was 9 or 10, lifted a loose floor board in the attic of the parsonage where he lived and found, wrapped in old oil cloth, seven muskets & flintlocks hidden there almost two centuries earlier. |
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CORRECTION: The Parker 12 ga, for which I need the right hammer; the serial number is 0807, pre 1874. I was reading the number upsidedown.
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12-06-2009, 10:02 PM
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Wish I could go back to the house and pull the floor board, but the house was demolished 45 years ago.
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Dean: how more of that story?! I have always dreamed of coming on an ancient Alaskan cabin with a nice old .50-110 takedown Winchester '86 hidden under a bed wrapped in oil cloth or some protective case. Never has happened and I've looked and dug into a LOT of ancient broken down cabins and found a lot of neat stuff, just never a gun. Ammo yes... but that Winchester still eludes me...
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