Gotta love the family guns of whatever ilk. They represent a connection that can last many lifetimes - if they are kept and passed along with some of the history and stories recorded for future generations to enjoy. I grew up with a JABC in the gun closet (yep, not a safe). It is a Jannsen Sons & Co. Laminated steel 12 ga hammer gun. My Dad would not allow it to ever be used, but it stayed anyway. It was his Dad's gun but his mother was the shooter. It was on the homestead where she protected the chickens from the hawks. (I have this "Tarnation" image in my mind only with my grandmother shooting the Jannsen). One day there was a multitude of blackbirds in her trees. Apparently she wondered how many she could hit with a single shot. She fired and so many fell that it changed her attitude. She told me, many decades ago, that killing so many birds so affected her that she never fired the gun again. Not sure how her chickens managed to avoid the hawks after that. A few years before my father passed, I told him I wanted that gun. He immediately brought it out, along with his Savage 29B pump .22 that I enjoyed as a kid. I completely re-did the .22 and stored the Jannsen safely away until a couple years ago. I stripped it down, cleaned it up as best I could and then left it in parts. Just got a new set of firing pins made but I won't be throwing away the one original and the second home made - probably a bolt filed into an approximation of the original. I'll fiddle with a bit of blue and work on the wood and some day, I'll reassemble a nice looking gun but I'm not sure about ever firing it. If I do, it will involve a 100 yard LOP, with me behind some heavy steel. That lamp sounds intriguing as well.
I cast another vote for keeping your family gun in the family.
Here are a few non-Parker Bros. guns that will show the word Parker on them somewhere. Parker Trap Gun, Field Parker & Son. E. D. Parker (Belgian), C. Parker & Co (Belgian), E.D. Parker (Belgian), T. Parker (Belgian), T. Parker New York (Crescent Fire Arms), Thomas Parker (London), W.Parker New Pin Fire (maker unknown) and Parker-Smith-Williams (maker unknown)
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Cheers,
Jack
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