New Member from Texas

[Dean Romig]

Bibb, it's sad that the barrels have been sleeved but most folks didn't know that Damascus barrels are perfectly safe to shoot with appropriate loads. A lot of Damascus barrels were discarded or sleeved back in the day. The ammunition companies and gun manufacturers told us so.... It was a conspiracy to get people to buy new guns and the new smokeless ammo.... too bad.

The cutouts in the extractor for the firing pins are not unusual for a 1902 (approx.) Parker.

The checkering pattern on the forend is that of a Grade-1 (VH) Parker and quite different from checkering pattern for the Grade-2 (GH) gun that you have.

The buttplate and screws are correct to the gun

We'd like to see pictures of the entire buttstock and detailed pictures of the checkering on the grip.

[Pa SxS]

Dean and Dave,

A couple of things lead me to believe the gun is a mixture of non original parts. Certainly the barrels are not original but the block is. The top rib looks like the word "Special" uses a different font type, I'm guessing that Damascus was filed out and Special inserted??? Bibb, can you check and see if you see a damascus pattern? It may be more visable looking at the side of the rib instead of the top that has the matting on it.

Also, the pistol grip cap and the buttplate are the wrong style for that period of gun manufacture.

Dean, you said that the notches seen on the ejector is not uncommon. The Parker Story shows a picture of an early hammerless gun with notches on the extractor but that's a gun made in 1890 with a s/n of 57K. They doubled their gun production by the time Bibb's gun was made. It would be easy to find out if the extractor is original if Bibb could examine the extractor by looking for the last 3 digits of the serial number. The 3 digits are probably on the backside face of the extractor

Interesting gun.