Value of DHE #1 frame 16 gauge made 1926

[MarketHunter]

I've seen pits cleared off of guns and the blue touched up to where even an expert couldn't have spotted it. The man who did the work has passed away but my guess is there's somebody else out there.

DLH

[Sowega 01]

Thanks for your opinions. I don't have the gun in my possession to take pictures of the rust patches. All three were on one barrel within a silver dollar size area. I commented to the fellow that showed me the gun that the rust could be easily removed but would probably leave no blue.

[Joe D.]

A Frontier pad with WD-40 will take the rust without harming the blue.

[Mitchell Nahra]

What are these and where would one find them? I have a 16ga DHE with a slight amount of surface rust on the bottom of the receiver that I would like to remove but do not wish to harm the case coloring. Thanks!!
Mitch

[C.O.B.]

There was a link posted here to an auction site not long ago where a DHE 16 sold for around $8500 that wasn't as nice as this gun if my memory serves. me correctly. IMHO this is a $10K-11K gun. What a beauty, some of us wouldn't take her to the fields but that is what Parker made her for and I would "enjoy" the colors befor it was passed on to another caretaker. I hope the gun gets some field time.

[Bill Murphy]

There is little chance of finding out whether the pad is original or not. 1926 is too late for an order book entry. The PGCA letter wouldn't address the pad even if it were original. If the stock is long enough, there could be evidence of skeleton buttplate screws, but not likely. A 14 inch stock with skeleton butt will probably only clean up at about 13 3/8". If the stock is any longer than that now, all wood, it is unlikely that it had a skeleton butt.