J.P Dean's Parker

[Frank Good]

Originally Posted by Stan Hoover

What looks to be a Miller trigger wouldn't bother me in the least, I would replace the Hawkins and enjoy.

It would be a bonus if it had a skeleton butt plate, but there's enough of other things going there, I would be very interested.

I didn't have a chance to look in the TPS yet, do they mention the frame size?

They do not in the ad or show any pics of the water table etc. I don't have a copy of the TPS to look either.

[Brett Trimble]

There appears to be a JP Dean who served in the Minnesota State Senate in 1898. The State Historical Society may be able to help with additional details.

[Frank Good]

Originally Posted by Brett Trimble

There appears to be a JP Dean who served in the Minnesota State Senate in 1898. The State Historical Society may be able to help with additional details.

Must be a google thing where it restricts you to what you can find based on your country of origin as I cannot get anything like you posted to come up in a google search. Unless it's my browser doing it?

[Phil Yearout]

Wow; interesting way to try to make a pad fit the stock . Although at least they chopped the pad. I once drove to the KC Cabela's to look at what was purported to be a nice little Hunter Arms 20ga, and when I got there the stock had been whittled on just like that to match a replacement butt plate that was too small. I always said it looked like it had been done with a hatchet. That fact had not been mentioned in the gun's description nor during the conversations I'd had with the Cabela's folks when I expressed interest in the gun and had it shipped in from another store.

They wouldn't bargain at all on their asking price despite the stock damage so obviously I passed. I was pretty disappointed, and then my wife said, "Why don't you just buy that Fox; that's the one you really want anyway?" God I love that woman!

[Brett Trimble]

Frank,

That picture popped up on a post by the Minnesota Historical Society. Another search confirmed JP as a Minnesota Senate member at that time. I was using Google’s AI feature. You can call the Historical Society or ho to there webpage which is highlighted in the Facebook post.

Best,
Brett

[GunnerGrilli]

That Pad is wild!!!!



Bobby

[Researcher]

Several companies offered ejectors for Parker Bros. hammerless doubles. One of the most noted was Moran & Wolfersperger in Chicago --

American Field, September 5, 1903.jpeg

73542 03 M&W Ejectors in GH.jpg

For years after Mathew E. Moran and Ross C. Wolfersperger went their separate ways, Gus Habich in Indianapolis offered the M & W ejectors --

Gus Habich, F.P. Stannard & Moran, Nov. 17, 1906.jpeg

Another maker was C.A. Fischer, Grand Forks, North Dakota, offering ejectors for Parker Bros. guns --

78539 01 Parker Bros. AH 004 C.A. Fischer ejectors.jpg78539 02 Parker Bros. AH .jpg

I seem to recall there was an outfit in San Francisco offering aftermarket ejectors for Parker Bros. hammerless guns as well.

When Parker Bros. introduced their ejectors circa 1901, they were ridiculously expensive at $25 --

Quality D.H. Ejector Catalog.jpg

Ejectors were only $5 extra on Remington Hammerless Doubles.

[Alfred Houde]

Just a guess, the hacking up of the pad may not so much have been a poor fitting attempt as perhaps an attempt to make it or at least make it look pliable.

We have all seen vintage pads crushed, melted, rotted away, and hard as a rock. It may explain why material has been removed all the way around it.

Definitely needs to be replaced, for sure.

[Craig Larter]

Another cool old war horse that I appreciate for what it is, just a neat old gun that has been modified to suit it's owners needs. It's about as far from original condition as can be but can't imagine how many days afield and at the traps this gun has encountered.

[Frank Good]

Somebody bumped it up $2000 in one bid within a couple hours of my posting looking for info on JP Dean.

I won't do that again...