Identifying a 1/2 Frame

[edgarspencer]

Dave, Brian, Bill didn't say the Half Frame was produced in 1920, merely that there was a memo, dated '20, suggesting it.

[Jean Swanson]

I am staying out of this---I only reported what I read !!!

I have owned a few half frame 12 bores, I know where they are today and bid on one years ago at an auction , only to be out bid by Morris Baker !! That is how I met Morris, now a fiend .

Allan

[Bill Murphy]

I agree with you, Allan. Morris is "a fiend".

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

I agree with you, Allan. Morris is "a fiend".

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[Bill Murphy]

I have the 1920 (I am in error, it is 1930) memo copy, and I'm sure Dave S. sent it to me when we were discussing the 1/2 frame on this forum. I'll try to find it in my 1/2 frame file. OK, I found the blueprint. It is, for sure, a 1930 document. The date is written less than clearly, and I mistook the 3 for a 2 years ago.

[Bill Murphy]

The most interesting feature of the Parker Brothers blueprint is that it called for the water table to be milled out like the 00, 000, and 0 frame hammer guns. That would have been a very elegant feature of the 1/2 frame, had it been implemented.

[B. Dudley]

And made the guns a little lighter than they are.

[GH-16]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

The most interesting feature of the Parker Brothers blueprint is that it called for the water table to be milled out like the 00, 000, and 0 frame hammer guns. That would have been a very elegant feature of the 1/2 frame, had it been implemented.

You're right on. That would have been a neat feature!!!

[Craig Larter]

OK so I think the 1/2frame is cool and very rare but why not just buy a 16ga.

[Dean Romig]

It's the mystique of the gun and the research. They seemed to command a lot more money about a decade ago.





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