1900 Parker sxs AAHE grade 7 rare find

[Bradley]

Hey parker brothers, I hope to turn this into a great story for the history books. My name is Bradley I live in central ga area in a small farm town. I am a antique hobbyist. I've refinished old furniture, farm equipment, build farm style furniture, collect antiques things for myself to enjoy and I really get into sometimes. I like to find the history of it all. Even where I chose to live surrounds the history of my state and my wife and I designed and built our house the old way with some new touches ourselves. I live in a small community where the general Sherman marched through ga burning down town after town and on our land is one of the last standing homes left not burned down because him and his army decide to take camp on it to reap some of the benefits offered by the family's farm offerings. So when I have time we walk and we look for signs of the remains to feel the history of this awesome land. We as a family enjoy going to look at local sales wether it's a yard sale, local auction, old town pawn shop, flea market or antique store we make weekends of this with our kids to show them a diff side of our life and show them it's not always about all of the nice new things. So here we are shopping around one sat going from flea market to antique shops and small town pawn shops... sometimes I would just run in take a look and walk out thanking the owners for their time. So on this day I walk into a small town pawn shop specifically looking for antique hunting and fishing gear.... I was talking to the owner explaining what I was looking for when it happened. This parker basically fell into my hands. This owner didnt normally buy old guns he was saying because of the risk involved and he just didnt have the knowledge so it would take lots of time to even sit down and try and make a deal with anyone coming in to pawn or sell anything like that to him and he just wasnt interested. But that day thats exactly what I was looking for and he basically took it in from the guy and turned it right around to me since I had just asked about looking for an old gun for display mainly. He said the gun is in decent shape it seems and its clearly been repaired by someone themselves by his opinion. So he didnt think it was worth anything but exactly what I was asking for. So you could only imagine what he offer it to me for.... very little...about like the old fishing reels I had purchased also. I had no idea what had just been placed into my hands but to my eyes it was exactly what I was describing to him that I wanted to display in my game room. So here I am.... I am looking at this gun and I'm pretty knowledgeable about guns so I give it a good look over and it operated like as you would expect something of its nature. Tight but smooth actions closes like an old safe locking system I was amazed at the engraving and I said this one isnt like the others I had purchased... at this point my curiosity has taken over and I'm looking for details and go to the web searching for some history. That is what brought me here... and man I was amazed when I saw the pictures of some the restored and remakes even. As you known from my original post that's where the fun began. Getting the knowledge and the history behind this gun is still amazing. I am really wanting to know who owned it and where it lived most of its life. This was not just some rich fancy pants that showed it off to his buddies. This one was used for his enjoyment...you can just feel it on the grip and see it from the wear by the ejectors on the barrel. He obviously had to have had it maintenanced and upgraded for hunting purposes. Cant wait to find out the actual history!! I attached some photos for your curiosity bones also. Let's talk!!!