14 Gauge SN 147 -- New user trying to identify Parker SxS

[Bruce Day]

As in most matters Parker, TPS provides most answers to most questions.

p. 1004 List of the 14 ga guns by SN. The first is SN 4701.

pp. 516, 519, 524 Tables of chamber and bore dimensions.

It is not uncommon that we see alleged 14 ga guns that turn out to be wallowed and bored out 16 gauges and alleged 11's from 12 ga guns.

[edgarspencer]

I no sooner said I thought it could be a 14ga. when it occurred to me it was more likely the 12ga. brass shell chamber. I knew I'd be corrected soon enuf.

[Gunner]

Bruce,
Thanks for indicating the relevant tables.
Unfortunately, TPS isn't definitive in this case since the gun predates written records and Fig. 12.17 lists 14 ga being available in 1869 even though not listed in early listed catalogs.
There is no chamber info for a 12B shell in TPS and the table of chamber data is standardized as of 1920 some 50 years after this particular gun was made.
A 12B seems the best guess but it still remains a guess without the owner taking the initiative to have the chambers and bores measured and originality determined.
This is an interesting gun for which more info is warranted.
Erick