Older parker ejector system?

[Jack Pesci]

I recently purchased just a complete Parker, ejector, forend. Serial number is 105608, I believe it would fit a size 3 frame. According to the serialization book it was made in 1901 and is a grade 3. The book doesn't mention anything about it being an ejector gun. You can see from the pictures I have attached that the ejector system is not the one patented in 1901. It has " M & W PAT. NO. 804" stamped on the bottom of the ejector "box". Can anyone shed some light on this strange, at least for me, ejector system?

Thanks,
Jack

[Dean Romig]

Does it look like an Ithaca system?





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[Jack Pesci]

That is what I think it looks like - similar but not exact.

[Researcher]

From at least 1899 to 1904, Mathew E. Moran and Ross C. Wolfersperger were gunsmiths in Chicago, IL. One of their specialties was after-market ejectors for Parker Bros. doubles. By 1904 they had come up with a single trigger, ejector double of their own and the name of their business became Moran & Wolf Gun Co. They even outbid Ansley H. Fox for the Garvin inletting machines at the receiver's sale of the assets of Baltimore Arms Co. Things apparently didn't work out and eventually Wolfersperger retired, Mathew E. Moran hooked up with F.P. Stannard as gunsmiths in Chicago, and the after-market ejector business went to Gus Habich in Indianapolis, IN. This from the Nov. 17, 1906, issue of The American Field --



Here are M & W ejectors on GH serial number 73542 --





This GH has the stamping "M & W. PAT. No. 805" so was likely the next set of ejectors fitted after the forearm in the original post.

Another provider of after-market ejectors for Parker Bros. doubles was C.A. Fischer of Grand Forks, ND.

[Jack Pesci]

Thanks Dave! I never would have thought that this was an after market application. If you know of anybody that could use this have them contact me. I only bought it because I was intrigued.