Parker Double barrel

[Chris Wyatt]

i have a parker 12 gauge double barrel and i am trying to determine the grade, where the serial number is has a vm stamp and also a v stamp, i pretty sure it is not a grade 5, any help is appreciated

[Andy]

Go to Parker Gun Collectors home page, not the forum, and look at all the resources there telling where to find all sorts of marks. That page will help you get information and then posting photos here will help us.

parkerguns.org

[Researcher]

From the earliest Quality VH guns I've recorded they are marked V above the serial number on the watertable --

89095 02.jpeg

That remains the way they were marked to at least 148672 --

148762 01 12-gauge, 30-inch, VH.jpg

By 151457 they moved the V below the serial number and put VH in an elongated hexagon above the serial number --

151457 01 VHE 28-inch.jpg

at some point between the 191xxx and 196xxx range the elongated hexagon disappears and it is just VH above and V below.

[Chris Wyatt]

thanks all for the response, i have included 2 pics and am trying to determine the grade, i know the stock is a 1 1/2 and it was made in 1927serial number and grade.jpg

serial number and grade 2nd pic.jpg.pdf

[Researcher]

Your gun is a VH if it has plain extractors or a VHE if it has automatic ejectors. From the January 1, 1927, Parker Bros. catalog --

VH, VHE January 1, 1927 catalog.jpeg

Jan. 1, 1927 Retail Price List.jpeg

The VH/VHE is the most common Parker Bros. shotgun, with some 78,659 produced according to the tables in The Parker Story, 51,901 in 12-gauge.