Acquired my earliest Parker

[B. Dudley]

Thomas,
Great find! The gun looks to be in great condition.
I had the chance to inspect and make an offer on a similar gun about a year ago in Syracuse. It was a serial number right around 1,000 if I remember correctly. It was an open ended offer and I never heard back from the seller. It would not be too hard to get all the accessories to complete what is missing. The most expensive part would be getting all the missing shells.
But the value may be diminished since the shells would not be original to the set.

[wayne goerres]

It is a great find. It should make the parker pages. The earliest and latest survivors list.

[OLD GEEZER]

Chuck: I would be interested in who purchased the gun originally and what ever is available. It is decarbonited Steel. The check is in the mail. Thomas

[Mills]

Very nice! I love the accessories and case. That is a real find

[Pa SxS]

Only the order books list the purchaser. Sorry

[OLD GEEZER]

Chuck: It has a B above the ser. no. on the water table and I found a name wrote in pencil on the stock under the butt plate. The Ser. no. is the same on all parts except the trigger guard is 1969 and the rest is 1968. I notices in the book that 1969 was optioned the same and I wonder if the person that had 1969 doesn't have the trigger guard with ser. no. 1968. The gun looks like it came from a town in New York which I will have to investigate further. Thomas

[Pa SxS]

Good luck with the gun Tom. The real early lifters in the range of 1500 to about 8000 are only in the stock books. The real early ones like yours have very faded pencil entries and many columns are not readable such as the gauge of your gun and the stock grip. At least I know yours is a straight grip as are many of those old guns in your S/N range. Please include the gauge it is in your letter. If the barrels appear uncut, include the length. Hope it's not one of those 11 gauges!

[OH Osthaus]

its a 12 ga with 30" by the book

switched trigger guard, wonder if that was an oops at the factory or it someone owned both

[OLD GEEZER]

The Parker spent some time in Oneida New York because that was wrote in pencil on stock butt. I bet they put the wrong trigger guard on this gun. Thomas

[OH Osthaus]

Onieda was a well to do factory town at the point that gun was made. And home to the Onieda silver company, likely would have been good grouse hunting locally and in the nearby Adirondacks, as well as waterfowling on Onieda Lake and the nearby Mohawk river.