The Parker Bros. Trojan Grade gun wasn't introduced to the trade until 1912. Could this gun be an early experiment in producing a lower priced Parker Bros. gun? That roller forearm larch looks like the latch used on Tobin ejector guns.
The actual forearm latch used on the Trojan Grade as introduced is a version of the J.C. Kremer & A.H. Fox Patent No. 1,029,374 latch used on some early Ansley H. Fox graded smallbores and some of the early Sterlingworths. A.H. Fox Gun Co. finally settled on using their F.T. Russell Patent No. 1,029,229 latch on all their snap-off/on forearms. The year the PGCA met at the gun show in Richmond, Babe Delgrego showed me some letters he had between Parker Bros. and A.H. Fox Gun Co. about their use of the Kremer & Fox latch.
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