Parker Brothers DH Ser#173674

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Recently a dear friend and member of this forum passed away after battling cancer for the better part of a year. I'm talking about Ron Kolodziej, a recently retired dentist and shooting buddy. For a number of years, Ron admired the Parkers I brought to the skeet field and finally joined the PGCA and purchased a Parker DH from I believe one of the online gunbroker type sales sites. In his passing he left this 1916 vintage DH to his son in law, who now shoots regularly with us and most recently brought this DH to the range for us gents to see. Frame size 2, 30 inch barrels, choked mod and full with 3 inch chambers. capped pistol grip, engraving is still crisp but little to no color remains, extractors w/titanic steel barrels. The one drawback to this otherwise all original double is that the stock had been seriously cut down sometime with a 1-2 inch black spacer installed in front of a pachmayer pad. Looks a little ugly on an otherwise very nice double. The one unique feature to the gun is that it was apparently ordered from the factory with no safety. In text messaging with Dean R., we feel that while some might call this a "live bird gun", it may have been ordered by the purchaser for trap or serious waterfowl shooting. I have pics of it on my cell but as yet haven't figured out how to transfer them to this site. But anyone offering comment or knowledge of this double, please feel free to comment. I've urged Ron's son in law to order a Research Letter - let's see what the provenance might show if any.