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08-23-2011, 10:08 AM | #3 | ||||||
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Dean, thank you for getting back to me. The serial number is 64220
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08-23-2011, 01:11 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Dave,
Your gun is listed as a 0 grade hammerless 12 gage with 30" plain twist barrels and a capped pistol grip stock made in 1890. |
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08-23-2011, 02:01 PM | #5 | |||||||
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Thanks again. |
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08-23-2011, 03:12 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Please post pics if you can. It would have to be in pretty darn good condition for an 0 grade (P) to be worth that much.
I agree that the letters on the receiver are most liley the owners initials. Most likely added by the owner. Are they punched? Or engraved? |
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08-23-2011, 03:31 PM | #7 | ||||||
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An O grade gun would be a Vulcan grade gun in the hammerless model. A P grade gun is a grade 1 gun and the twist steel barrels would be an indicator of a grade 1 gun also. You say the gun has a vent rib. In 1890 Parker Bros. did not offer a vent rib gun so the rib must have been added later either by the factory or some other outfit such as Moneymaker or possibly Simmons. Although I am not sure if Simmons did vent ribs on double guns.Good quality picture would be a great first step in solving this mistery.
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08-23-2011, 09:25 PM | #8 | |||||||
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I don't have my serialization book at home here but when I looked up that number today the code was PT which corresponded to a O grade with Plain Twist barrels. Did Parker make Vulcan barrels in 1890? |
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08-23-2011, 10:55 PM | #9 | ||||||
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Larry, I just looked the gun up in the book and it is listed as PT. I think this is in error as the lowest grade gun advertised with composite barrel would be a P grade/Grade 1 gun. Vulcan barrels were advertised in 1899 but we know they were put on grade O grade guns as early as 1898.
I have 68805 it's listed as a PT 12 gauge with 30" barrels also. There is a P stamped on the watertable. I
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08-23-2011, 11:02 PM | #10 | ||||||
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Plain Twist
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