Nice find!! Looks like a great honest gun.
The talk is always of the famous Widgeon Duck Club long barrel, 3-inch chambered, 20-gauges, mostly DHEs but one BHE, of the 1912 and 13 time frame. Six of those are in the 1590xx serial number range and the other two 163961 and 2.
Edwin Hedderly, the editor of Western Field magazine wrote extensively about long barrel smallbores for California duck hunting and got several 32-inch barrel and long stocked Parker Bros. doubles in exchange for advertising in the magazine. On February 10, 1911, he ordered a 32-inch 20-gauge DHE with a pistol grip and no safety chambered for 2 1/2 inch shells, 155620. Then on March 29 he ordered a similar 28-gauge, 156717. In 1912, he ordered 32-inch A1-Specials in 20 and 16-gauge. In keeping with the practice of holding the chambers 1/8 inch shorter than the intended shell, he specified 2 3/8 inch chambers on the 20-gauge and 2 7/16 inch chambers on the 16-gauge.
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