DHE 20g Ribs

[Bob Brown]

I always enjoy your posts of high condition or rare Parkers. Bruce. Please keep them coming. Did all the longer barrel 20s have the tapered rib? This post got me to send in letter requests on a couple that I've been meaning to for a while. One is a 30" barrel VHE 20 with a straight grip, pad, and ivory bead. The bead is smaller on this than the one pictured, but the rib has a pretty good taper to it though not to the same extent with the 2" shorter barrels.

[Bruce Day]

Bob I have seen the narrow tapered rib on all gauges 12 through 410 and in barrels 28 and more. That's just what I've seen and I sure haven't seen them all. There is no mention of it in TPS nor has it been found in Parker documents but it surely exists

Sounds like you have a wonderful 20ga

Here is the narrow tapered rib on a 1905 CHE 16 ga 28 that I will take with me for the next month. A favorite hunting gun.

[Bruce Day]

Kind of nice wood on the 16

[Bruce Day]

Here is another narrow tapered rib on a 20 ga 30" A grade

[Bruce Day]

Also with nice wood

[Bruce Day]

And some people like the engraving

[Bob Brown]

That is a beauty, Bruce. It may seem odd to the members in the U.S., but even though I've been a PGCA member for years and kept my eyes open for Parkers I've only actually seen, in person, one in a grade higher than DH. A well worn AH about 6 years ago at a gun show I had to drive 12 hours to get to. There just aren't any up in northern Canada where I live. So please keep those photos coming. Its probably as close as I'll get to the high grades.

edit:You posted those A grade photos while I was typing the note above. Just stunning. Some day when I retire I'm going to travel down the east coast and hit all the big SxS shoots in the fall. It will be an education.

[Bruce Day]

Bob I flew with the RCAF at Edmonton and spent time at RCAFB Cold Lake. Landed at Churchill on Hudsons Bay. Great times and great people. Spent many storms at Goose Bay in Labrador

[Bob Brown]

Goose Bay, Churchill, Cold Lake, well, you've hit some of the best places in Canada! It is a great country, but could sure use more Parkers, Foxes, and Elsies.

[Bruce Day]

I haven't helped you much. I have pulled three really nice Parkers and one wonderful Lefever out of Canada. The little DHE 20 ga 24" in the first photos spent 95 years in Halifax NS