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04-26-2020, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Chuck Bishop
Allen, your gun was made in 1884 and is a Quality T, Top Action Hammer gun, 12ga. with 30" Plain Twist barrels. The Quality T was the lowest grade hammer gun Parker made. It sold for $55.00.
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Just to put that in perspective, here are the average wages in America back then;
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/...?start_page=10
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04-26-2020, 03:47 PM
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Thanks for that! So it basically comes out to more than a full month’s pay. As far as I know they were farmers. Man, not a small amount of money by any means back then. Wow
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