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Unread 08-29-2016, 08:26 PM   #1
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I picked these up at a flea market while on vacation. The fellow I bought them from told me his Grandfather worked for Remington during WWll. Thought I'd share. Frame measures 1 1/16 cc on firing pins.
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The "Book" only list serials numbers to 241788. Looks like a Parker planned, but not produced. Great find!
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Nice collector's paper-weight. Excellent find!






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Very Cool !!!
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Ill add it to my bitter end database!!
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A more accurate measurement is !" cc on the firing pins and 2" across the breech. What gauge would that be?
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One inch, center to center, would indicate a 0-frame which, in the Remington era, would indicate a twenty-gauge or less likely, a sixteen.

However, the charts show the 0-frame as measuring 2 1/32" across the face of the breech balls.

Much earlier when Parker Bros. first introduced the twenty-eight gauge it was built on the 0-frame.... but this thread is about Remington Parkers so disregard that.





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I think this was discussed before, but what is the latest known Parker from Remington?
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I think this was discussed before, but what is the latest known Parker from Remington?
Supposedly the last Parker from Remington was shipped from inventory in the late 1940's, (see TPS) but Parkers were assembled from existing parts and presented to individuals on several occasions well up into the 1950s to honor Remington-connected individuals on special events (e.g., retirement, etc.). Probably all of these were done before Larry Del Grego Sr. left Remington and purchased the existing parts inventory before opening his own business.

For several years before Elmira Arms went out of business, the Hartmann brothers displayed and offered for sale a BHE that bore a serial number beyond any recorded in the archives, but in keeping with the last known sequence of Remington Parker numbers (242XXX).

I don't recall the gauge or the particular configuration of the gun (PG or SG; SFE or BTFE, etc.) but I examined the gun closely on several visits there and it appeared to be the real thing; not an upgrade or a "project gun" someone put together. I don't know when or where they sold it if in fact they did (it was a consignment gun) but I do remember it was displayed in a very nice oak & leather trunk case with accessories.
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Remington Arms bought the Parker Gun Works in 1934. Any and all Parker shotguns produced after the date of that purchase would have been made under Remington ownership.





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