Research Letter Received! - Page 3

Dane Atkinson · 03-30-2013, 08:41 PM

Found a nice article.

Bill Murphy · 03-30-2013, 09:17 PM

Great article. Again, congratulations and good luck on further research.

Bill Murphy · 03-31-2013, 09:41 AM

Dane, I guess I was lucky when I suggested that Mr. Stair might have worked for Peters. Can you access the continuation of the article for us? Where did you find that?

Dane Atkinson · 03-31-2013, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Dane, I guess I was lucky when I suggested that Mr. Stair might have worked for Peters. Can you access the continuation of the article for us? Where did you find that?

Bill, google has a "book" category to search under. I searched his name and found many E-books that were free to download as a pdf. This article was found from a Fins, feather and fur book which is about 650 pages. The "book" is just magazines compiled together.

Here is the rest of the article....

Bill Murphy · 03-31-2013, 10:43 AM

Thanks.

Dane Atkinson · 04-01-2013, 09:58 PM

Bill, today I brought it to my local hunt club and it was pretty exciting to tell all the "older" local shooters about what we discovered about the gun. A lot of them remembered the hardware store it was ordered from and one used to work there. One older gentleman that does wood work and engraves, and also has a few Parker's thought it was worth around $2,000. I know you haven't seen the gun personally but what is your opinion?

*Given the history and rare options

Bill Murphy · 04-02-2013, 08:02 AM

Provenanced competition guns are in my collector interest, so it is worth more to me. I will let others give their opinions of the value of a Damascus DH with special features.

Dane Atkinson · 04-03-2013, 10:41 PM

Just took some better pictures of the gun. Album is here http://parkerguns.org/forums/album.php?albumid=435

GH-16 · 04-04-2013, 09:30 PM

Thanks for the pictures.

A very interesting gun to say the least. It's only my opinion, but I think it is worth well north of the two grand your club buddies valued it at. If it were mine I would get one of the professional stock repair guys to stabalize the crack in the wrist by the top tang.

One other thing I find of interest is the barrels. In the picture showing the muzzle end. Is that a band of a different type of Damscus right at the muzzle on the right barrel? It looks different than the rest of the barrel. Maybe Drew or Brad can weigh in on this one.

Dane Atkinson · 04-04-2013, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul Ehlers

Thanks for the pictures.

A very interesting gun to say the least. It's only my opinion, but I think it is worth well north of the two grand your club buddies valued it at. If it were mine I would get one of the professional stock repair guys to stabalize the crack in the wrist by the top tang.

One other thing I find of interest is the barrels. In the picture showing the muzzle end. Is that a band of a different type of Damscus right at the muzzle on the right barrel? It looks different than the rest of the barrel. Maybe Drew or Brad can weigh in on this one.

I think it is a slight pitting. IMO