Makes me cry!!

[Dean Romig]

To bring it back to its former glory would be admirable and quite an undertaking but for posterity’s sake it should be done. Certainly recouping the investment in the gun and the restoration would be a gamble... but oh, the satisfaction!





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[Howard Loewensteiner]

I agree with you Dean. The buyer has to make a decision to restore or leave it the way it is.I called the seller to see if he new bore diameter and min wall thickness but they did not know. Being in the gun business without the proper tools is like an auto mechanic without a wrench. just my opinion

[B. Dudley]

No surprise there that they didn't know.

[Mills]

7 days left and close to 10 grand

[Mike of the Mountain]

The way the bidding is going and any cost of restoration could take this Parker over the $20K threshold. It would make for an interesting article for Parker Pages if a member buys and restores her.

[Mills]

Several such guns have made it into Parker Pages and it always makes for a good story. Hopefully, this one will make it into an article

[Mike of the Mountain]

You remember that HE Fox that was on an auction site a year or two ago? It was covered with than coating of bright red rust. It cleaned up beautifully and worked out to be a steal for the new owner.

[Mills]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

You remember that HE Fox that was on an auction site a year or two ago? It was covered with than coating of bright red rust. It cleaned up beautifully and worked out to be a steal for the new owner.

That guy was lucky

[John Davis]

It’s a gun worthy of a complete restoration, dollars be damned. There was a time when I would probably have taken this project on. Alas, my gun interests are focused elsewhere these days. So I dodged that bullet.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

You remember that HE Fox that was on an auction site a year or two ago? It was covered with than coating of bright red rust. It cleaned up beautifully and worked out to be a steal for the new owner.

I went to that gunshop in southern NH to look at it. I asked the owner if I could examine it and he couldn't figure why I drove over an hour to look at "that piece of rusted crap." He tole me that he told the woman who brought it in he would be surprised if he could get $300 for it. I assured him it would fetch well over $7,000 and he guffawed at that absurd figure, that he'd been around guns all his life and knew better than to even think it would sell for even close to that much. I took a bunch of 'before' pics. It had stood in a fieldstone cellar of a house on the coast in Swampscott, MA for almost fifty years. That humid salt air spread a rust powder all over it.