1895 12 GAUGE PARKER..DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT?

[Bruce Day]

Ron, there is a forum protocol which we all had to learn. Typing all in caps is the same as yelling, the bigger the type, the louder the yell. We cut you some slack because we could see that you are new at it.

Bill, you see that the V barrels have extractors on them.....

I have a rebarrelled CHE 16 with the Rem barrels, not marked graded, just SN'ed to the gun and the date repair code. Wish I had the original damascus.

[Bruce Day]

So Austin, is the engraving and stock work on the Scores gun likely Lefever work? I've seen fleur dis lis before like that on guns that were attributed to Lefever, but I'm too distant to them and too far from Parker centers to really know.

I've seen a few Lefever guns said to be done by that shop but you fellows back there see many more than ever find there way out here to the Parker desert.

[Austin W Hogan]

Bruce; The pictures of the Stores gun do not appear on my set of comments on this thread,

Best Austin

[Bruce Day]

he put them in a separate album instead of the discussion

[Bill Murphy]

I don't think Frank Lefever and Son had anything to do with this gun.

[RON SCORES]

THEY MATCH... UNDER TANG IS THE SAME AS THE OTHER NUMBERS

[TARNATION !!!]

Now doesn't that get more interesting. Water table shows a G frame but engraving is way beyond G. The butt stock checkering is high grade and the SN matches. Since there are some surviving records and it is an unusual gun, I think I would order a letter from research to satisfy what curiosity can be satisfied. Records for higher graded guns often show the original owner so you may be able to chase that down a bit as well.

Good luck in your search.
Jack

[RON SCORES]

MAILED MY REQUEST TODAY? I SURE HOPE I CAN FIND OUT WHO HAD THIS WORK DONE WHO OWNED THIS GUN...THEY MUST OF BEEN SOMEONE SPECIAL DO YOU AGREE?

[Bruce Day]

The research letter will most likely tell you that SN 84,025 was ordered in 1896 and was a G grade extractor gun, 30" damascus barrels choked full and full, 14" LOP, and 3" drop at heel. The gun was most likely shipped to a dealer or large hardware distributor and cost $80. If the gun was shipped to New York, maybe Shoverling Daly, or if lucky, the Charles Parker Company showroom in NYC. Some guns show the name of the first purchaser.

There will be no records on the Remington work in 1940. It is a remote possibility that you could take the gun to Babe Del Grego in Ilion, and he might be able to tell you something about what he believes with the gun.

Many Parkers were owned by "somebody special" and still are.

[RON SCORES]

YES WHEN I SAID SOMEONE SPECIAL I MEANT... I KNOW THE OWNER NOW DECEASED WAS TIGHT WITH THE ROOSEVELT'S HERE IN HYDE PARK NY THEY RACED ICE YACHTS HERE ON THE HUDSON, AND DID MANY OTHER SPORTING..THINGS