New guy ,just found a Parker

[chris dawe]

There are some pic's in the top left corner of my first post,they seem to take a while to open ,and again I apoligize for the quality it's the only camera I own .

Thank's for the interest fella's

[chris dawe]

O.K fella's ,I just got the letter.....the gun was ordered by Buhl & sons and company in Detroit on April the 17 ,1896 and shipped on June 9 of the same year the barrel's were 30 inch damascus (bernard ) choke's were full and full the order specified a stock sheild engraved BM ,length of pull was specified at 14 1/4 drop at 3 and a weight of 7 lb's at a price of $150.00 ....basically that's all I have.The gun has sling swivel's installed (unfortunately ) the stock is not origional and broken at the wrist and there was a rear sight installed about an inch ahead of the doll's head (very unsightly) damascus is quite visible with a couple dent's (wich I've removed) the bore's are quite good,and the receiver has no color left......So basically ,what have I got here ?...personally I would like to keep it, restocked of course to my dimension's the sling swivel and sight would be plugged for now untill a better repair can be made.

Any advice greatly apprciated,thank-you in advance

[Pittypatdugan]

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[Double Play]

Hi Chris,
Somhow I missed your original post. Please tell me how you determined the buttstock to be non-original. Did you look under the trigger guard to see if the serial number was stamped there? If it is the original stock then you should keep it even if you restock to your diamensions as that gun with the original stock would retain more value. Relativly few C grade guns were produced and Bernard barreld C grade guns are highly sought after. To aquire this gun for a mear pennance was fortunate on your part. Good luck with it and please do post some pictures when you can.

[chris dawe]

Hi Larry,I'm pretty sure it's not original, the checkering is poor ,it has a cheekpeice,plain buttplate and no there is no matching serial #......the people I got it from aquire most of their stock from europe,so I figure it found it's way over there somehow and someone installed the swivel stud's,cheekpeice stock ,and the awful rear bead as is customary with most european sxs gun's.
thank-you for your time
Chris

[chris dawe]

Hi fella's ,there's more pic's if you would like to take a look .....let me know what you guy's think .

Thank's again

[chris dawe]

It's been a few day's,I was wondering if any of you guy's had a chance to take a look....if so please let me know what you guy's think .

Thank's in advance.

[Harry Collins]

Chris,

I could not open the attachment to see the pictures. I have looked at the original and I must say you are very fortunate to have found a CH with Bernard barrels. If it were my Parker I would leave the sling swivels for the time being and just shoot the gun. I lived in Europe for five years and became almost dependent on a sling. I wish I had had swivels this past winter hunting duck all day in waist deep water. That #4 framed Parker got a little tiresom. I too would get rid of the "rear sight". There are some stockers out there that can make a duplicate of Parker work. You may be one of them. I would sure think about adding all that I could to bring this old girl back.

Kindest, Harry