Value of DHE #1 frame 16 gauge made 1926

[Joe D.]

A Frontier pad with WD-40 will take the rust without harming the blue.

[Mitchell Nahra]

What are these and where would one find them? I have a 16ga DHE with a slight amount of surface rust on the bottom of the receiver that I would like to remove but do not wish to harm the case coloring. Thanks!!
Mitch

[C.O.B.]

There was a link posted here to an auction site not long ago where a DHE 16 sold for around $8500 that wasn't as nice as this gun if my memory serves. me correctly. IMHO this is a $10K-11K gun. What a beauty, some of us wouldn't take her to the fields but that is what Parker made her for and I would "enjoy" the colors befor it was passed on to another caretaker. I hope the gun gets some field time.

[Bill Zachow]

My biggest concern, in terms of value, is the butt pad. If an original skeleton buttplate was cut off to be replaced by the black spacer and pad, I believe the value/price would drop significantly. If the gun was originally shipped with a pad, then that is a completely different story. Is there a letter on this gun?

[Bill Murphy]

There is little chance of finding out whether the pad is original or not. 1926 is too late for an order book entry. The PGCA letter wouldn't address the pad even if it were original. If the stock is long enough, there could be evidence of skeleton buttplate screws, but not likely. A 14 inch stock with skeleton butt will probably only clean up at about 13 3/8". If the stock is any longer than that now, all wood, it is unlikely that it had a skeleton butt.