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Here are the right side and the floor plate of a 16 ga. 0-frame GH with Damascus barrels.
Two good examples of 'looking back' birds on the same gun. (Possibly a mating posture?) .
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10-18-2016, 07:23 AM
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Adore the engraving. Sharptails on the side and pheasant on the floor plate. I was told the Parker did not engrave pheasants on guns until pheasant hunting kind of took off after states begin to open pheasasnt season around 1900.
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10-18-2016, 08:06 AM
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I have seen pheasants engraved on early Parkers where the white neck-ring in clearly visible in the engraving... not so much on these pictures birds.
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10-18-2016, 09:12 AM
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Incidentally, the GH I pictured is 76084, an 1892 gun so perhaps the long-tailed birds are not really pheasants at all...?
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10-18-2016, 11:16 AM
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Men -
Following this thread got me to thinking about "looking back dogs" - did they too start to become scarce at the end of the H. Gough era? My H. Gough (1890) gun is the only one I have with them I believe..........????
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10-18-2016, 08:57 PM
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Interesting thread! Here's mine, made in 1903.
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Mark
not sure if he is looking back or sideways - 1888
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10-18-2016, 09:39 PM
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'Casting a casual sideways glance' I would say....
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