1891 CH Bernard 10/12ga

[C grade]

Dean
Good catch! No, it looks like my CHE 12ga live bird gun maybe.
Bruce, I wish you had ended up with that 1 frame 2 barrel Bernard set , one of a kind gun. Is the 10ga barrel on your gun original to the gun?
I will try to get the correct picture this time!
David

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by David Dwyer

Dean
Good catch! No, it looks like my CHE 12ga live bird gun maybe.
David

David
The one you showed in your first picture is a Remington era C grade with single trigger and with Robert Runge engraving.

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[Bruce Day]

David, the gun is a two barrel set with the Bernards 12ga and the 10s Damascus.

TPS of course would tell us how many 10 ga Bernards were made, but I don't know how many are still around. Almost all Bernard barreled Parkers that I have seen or know of are
No. 2 frame 12ga 30". That is why your two barrel set of 1 frame 12's that you just sold and the BHE that I just showed with 12ga Bernard 1 frame 26 inchers are so uncommon. I know of only a couple 1 frame and a couple 1 1/2 frame 12s. And then the small bores are really rare, 2 sixteen ga 1 frame guns known.

Every once in a while another Bernard surfaces despite at least my thought that all that are out there have been revealed. That's what helps keep collecting interest high. I still have never seen or heard of the few 20 ga Bernards that were made. That's the grail for me.

[Dean Romig]

David, I'm going to stick my neck out and say that the C Grade you have pictured in not your CH 10 Bernard gun.... Am I right?

[Dean Romig]

I have examined a 12/10 CH Bernard gun (both barrel sets are 30" on the 2-frame) and it was originally made as a two-gauge, two-barrel set.

[Dean Romig]

Here are the 26" Bernard barrels with ejectors and twin ivories from a very special CHE built on the 1-frame. I would really love to find the gun ( 118705 ) that this set of barrels came from. 3 lbs., 5 oz. unstruck weight and the flat under the left tube is stamped with a "16".... I have no idea what the 16 represents but this is certainly a 12 gauge set of barrels.




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[Bruce Day]

Yes the CH 10/12 is an original set.

Its all right, a friend owns your old gun. But I would like to find a 1 frame 12ga short barrel, or buy Dean's barrels for my C 16 B, they might fit right on.