A gift Parker

[Elk Hunter]

Many years ago my barber found out I liked Parkers and told me he had an old one. I asked if it was for sale and he said it was in poor shape and he would just give it to me. Some time later I went back in his shop and he gave me this gem. The only marks on the frame flat is the serial # T4578 and what appears to be three very small marks that look like E.9.? there is a patent date on the trigger bar "patentedNov13,1866". There are no marks on the barrel flats but, there is T 4 on the bottom of the right barrel in front of the barrel flat and a small shield with the initials GB ? on the bottom of the right barrel. I have no clue what the marks mean and they are indistinct so I may not seeing them as they really are. There is no dolls head barrel extension and it has the usual steel butt plate and a wedge to hold the forearm on. It must have seen a lot of use as it is very very loose. The stock had been cracked through the wrist and was held together with friction tape. I put a couple of threaded brass pins through the wrist to keep it together. It's not a shooter but I still treasure it.