What is this?

[Steiner]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

It's a bear and looks like one that might appear on a very early gun, probably a lifter. I've seen similar engraving on such a gun.

"These guys are good" Gary pinpoints the gun by a single picture of engraving.

[B. Dudley]

How about a milk cow?

[Andy]

I can even see a very poorly done gargoyle here

[charlie cleveland]

I would have been a bad engraver ....you would think this bear looks good compared to one of my bears....charlie

[Woodcock survey]

Mike Koneski will give us the definitive answer.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Brian Dudley

How about a milk cow?

Those early Parker engravers had wonderful imaginations!!

Gary has/had the "cow gun" and the "chicken thief gun" - Charlie has/had the "sailboat gun" and the "fisherman gun" - Dave Suponski showed us the "kick in the pants trapshooter gun" - then there was the early Lifter with a sloop towing a large fish with a frigate on the horizon...

There are just a lot of them and I have probably saved pictures of most of them. I love the engraving on Parkers of all periods!





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[OH Osthaus]

chupacabra

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Dan Steingraber

Grade 3 Sausage Bear = Grade 3 Turnip Bird = Beautiful, real human artistic input from 140 years ago.

First thing I thought of was the proverbial "flying turnips". Couldn't think of an adjective to use with "bear". Some of us refer to some of the "head up fox" or "head down fox" as "stoat". Maybe we could refer to these bear type images as "woodchucks"?

[Researcher]

Chupacabra

[chris dawe]

That's easy ,they were actually very common up here on the coast, before it came extinct from over hunting ,the delicious flesh was what got the earlier islanders throu the winters ...it's a cross between a wild baloney and salt water rabbit ...uncanny rendition,only possible through actually seeing one IMHO