20ga DHE Damascus 1891

[Bruce Day]

Photo of the PGCA exhibit that several of us did at the Houston NRA show, May 3-5, 2013. There were some nice articles about the Parker exhibit in the Houston paper , which people mentioned.

We answered lots of Parker questions from attendees.

Next year's NRA convention will be in Louisville in May and I believe that there will likely be a Parker exhibit there. Or there will be the PGCA annual meeting in Sept this year back east. For a person who wants to know about and see Parkers, these might be good opportunities.

[Pa SxS]

Phillip,

You have to realize that we get many posts such as yours asking "What is my Parker worth" That's not a problem, just difficult to judge value from a description or photo's. Then, during the gun being discussed, the owner puts in that he wants to or is thinking of selling the gun, just as you did. That is not allowed by the PGCA unless you are a PGCA member. In that case there is a forum for PGCA members to sell guns. Only PGCA members can see this forum. I don't think you were being sly about saying it may be for sale, you just didn't realize it was against the rules. Usually when it's mentioned for sale, the owner gets PM's from PGCA members and non members, who are interested in the gun.

As far a case colors and what they look like, look at the receiver water table and the underside of the forend metal. You can see traces of this color. The entire receiver and forend metal should look like this. The bone and charcoal method of case hardening imparts carbon into the metal and adds color. The case colors are only a few thousands of an inch thick and can be worn off by handling and shooting the gun.