Age vs price on Parkers

[Kirk Potter]

Personally, I can’t stand some of the dogs on the later Meriden and Remington guns. Just too cartoony looking.. Just my opinion though. I’d pay more for a setter that doesn’t look like it was drawn by Walt Disney.

[Daniel G Rainey]

It appears to me that the Remington guns in the lower grades like the V have better wood than V guns from Meriden. On the other hand many of the G and P grades from the turn of the century or before have great wood. I think that was because of a better supply of good walnut at favorable price then than in later years.

[C.O.B.]

Originally Posted by Daniel G Rainey

It appears to me that the Remington guns in the lower grades like the V have better wood than V guns from Meriden. On the other hand many of the G and P grades from the turn of the century or before have great wood. I think that was because of a better supply of good walnut at favorable price then than in later years.

A Damascus GHE 20 from 1907. I don't see how it could get any better for this grade. I do think that the Remington era guns have better dimensions in some cases

[Dean Romig]

That made me laugh Randy.... me "sophisticated"...


Okay, I'll be a sophisticated buyer.... see, I can't even say it without laughing.





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[Wild Skies]

Speaking of age vs. value . . . wouldn't a Parker that was built with the replaceable wear plate in ~1905 and later have a little more added value than those built previous to the wear plate?

[TxHuntermn]

Originally Posted by Greg Baehman

Speaking of age vs. value . . . wouldn't a Parker that was built with the replaceable wear plate in ~1905 and later have a little more added value than those built previous to the wear plate?

That is what I mean by the impossibility to define any single characteristic such as age as a rule.

I will ask this question. If presented with two Parker guns, new in the box, exact same age and configuration, would they still have absolutely equal value?

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Mark Ray

I will ask this question. If presented with two Parker guns, new in the box, exact same age and configuration, would they still have absolutely equal value?

There's the BIG question. You said nothing about condition Mark and that particular factor is and has always been the most deciding factor on a Parker's value.... Condition, condition, and of course, condition.





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[John Knobelsdorf II]

Originally Posted by Mark Ray

I will ask this question. If presented with two Parker guns, new in the box, exact same age and configuration, would they still have absolutely equal value?

Two thoughts come to mind:

1.) Notice first, Parker Bros. got the same price for them. So yes (then and now [for me]), they have equal value in the market place (in general).

2.) I would still want to get to examine them to pick out which one I get to buy and keep. I have seen three (3) from 1926 that are all Grade 3 and appear on the same page in Price & Fjestad. The journeyman engravers’ work (not the dogs and birds) are in the same patterns, but different enough to notice and I have preferences there. I might even pay a little more to get the one I liked the best. So, not “absolutely equal value” to me.

[TxHuntermn]

It is a veritable "Rubics Cube" matrix of condition, engravers, features, provenance etc...In my opinion undefinable as a rule..

[Reggie B]

Depends on which one has the nicest box!