The earliest Parker gun in my current collection is a back action lifter 12ga serial number 1248. The water table, forend iron and barrel lug shows it as 01248. This gun would have been made approximately 1873. The gun is shown in the Parker Story on page 87 and in the Identification and Serialization book on page 14.
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The highest serial numbered gun is 239842 a GHE 16ga Skeet gun which was likely made in 1937, but a Remington document from 1942 titled "Surplus Warehouse Stock" shows it was still in inventory at that time.
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I owned "T" latch serial number 70 made for Chas. Parker by the Meridan Manufacturing Company circa 1867. However I sold it years ago, so is no longer in my collection. Here is a picture of it from page 43 of Ed Muderlak's book titled "Parker Guns - Shooting Flying and the American Experience" followed by me holding it circa 1991.
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