|
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
05-09-2012, 02:32 PM
|
#3 | ||||||
|
They are stunning! I can't help but admire the detail.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
10-27-2012, 10:15 PM
|
#4 | ||||||
|
12ga SN# 58509, ordered in November 1889, delivered January 1890.
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
| The Following User Says Thank You to Chris_Caile For Your Post: |
|
|
|
10-29-2012, 09:58 PM
|
#5 | ||||||
|
Chris, do you have a research letter on that gun? It may have been specially ordered that way but it isn't likely that a letter might mention that. That said, it is an early one and it is not especially unusual to find Grade 3 guns of that vintage to have "unusual" floor plate engraving motifs. Later Grade 3 guns normally display four birds in flight - either four ducks, four pheasants, four sharptail grouse or whatever. Yours was made during a period of transition in engraving themes and motifs. The early DH guns also were not as elaborately engraved as were DH's made even just five or six years later. It is fun to study these Grade 3's
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
10-29-2012, 11:00 PM
|
#6 | ||||||
|
Dean-
I do have a letter, it does not mention any special engraving. The engraving is a setter on the bottom, setter on the right side and a pointer on the left. |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
| The Following User Says Thank You to Chris_Caile For Your Post: |
|
|
|
10-30-2012, 06:36 AM
|
#7 | ||||||
|
Would you like to see a D hammer gun?
__________________
Father, will I be able to be brave when I am afraid? Child, that is the only time one can be brave. |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
10-30-2012, 09:05 AM
|
#8 | |||||||
|
Quote:
Well DUH.  Have we ever said "please don't show us that Parker" 
__________________
"If there is a heaven it must have thinning aspen gold, and flighting woodcock, and a bird dog" GBE |
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
10-30-2012, 10:09 PM
|
#9 | ||||||
|
Uh, I have to leave the computer for a moment to go to the restroom. Please don't post those D hammer gun pics while I'm away!
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
10-31-2012, 12:47 PM
|
#10 | ||||||
|
Here is the setter on my 1910 D---one of the nicer Parker dogs in my opinion---
|
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
| The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to Craig Larter For Your Post: |
 |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Hybrid Mode