Multi gauge sets

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I thought this might be of interest to this conversation. As many of you know Austin Hogan had a great interest in multi barrel and multi gage sets. At on time he had sent me the image below which is taken from the 1899 Parker catalog giving the price and effect (weight) of having the factory add a second set of barrels of a different gage. Also of note is the fact that this second set of barrels cost approximately half of what a new gun would have cost. I believe this information was used in an earlier Parker Pages article by Dr. Hogan.

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Originally Posted by Larry Frey

I thought this might be of interest to this conversation. As many of you know Austin Hogan had a great interest in multi barrel and multi gage sets. At on time he had sent me the image below which is taken from the 1899 Parker catalog giving the price and effect (weight) of having the factory add a second set of barrels of a different gage. Also of note is the fact that this second set of barrels cost approximately half of what a new gun would have cost. I believe this information was used in an earlier Parker Pages article by Dr. Hogan.

I have a PH 3 frame 10-gauge twist 32" and a PH 3 frame 12-gauge 32" twist, I fitted the 12 to the 10 original PH frame reason for buying the 12 gauge was for the barrel set and forend frame and stock were toast barrel weight marked on the 12-gauge set is 5-4 and the 10 gauge is 6-7 I know its not the same gun, but a 3 frame is a three frame. So what are your thoughts I just weighed the barrels without forends and 10 were 5-11 and 12 were 4-12 I see in Larrys post that its states fitted to same stock would that mean forend too? So, if a new forend was fitted also it could be lighter?