Did parker shotguns ever have factory recoil pads installed?

[Randy Roberts]

Originally Posted by Terry Smith

Parker shotgun 153475 is a Grade 3 hammer gun and it was ordered with a "Silvers rubber butt" for an extra charge of $4, where normally it would have had a skeleton steel butt plate

This one from 1900, another hammer gun (Quality B) that would have normally had the SSBP yet ordered with a Silvers pad. Once again, $4.

[Steiner]

Originally Posted by Randy G Roberts

This one from 1900, another hammer gun (Quality B) that would have normally had the SSBP yet ordered with a Silvers pad. Once again, $4.

WOW! Great gun and great letter.

[Stan Hoover]

Originally Posted by Randy G Roberts

This one from 1900, another hammer gun (Quality B) that would have normally had the SSBP yet ordered with a Silvers pad. Once again, $4.

Sounds like horribly short barreled light gun, it’s even missing nicely patterned Damascus barrels

Must be a tough gun to shoot well Randy, I feel bad for you

[Stan Hillis]

I would rather fit and grind a Silvers pad to a butt any day over a skeleton butt plate. No precise inletting needed for a Silvers.

$4 extra seems a bit high, all things considered. Just saying.

Edited to add: Rereading this I wanted to clarify that what I meant was not a preference, according to function or aesthetics, but according to the amount of effort/work involved to do either of the jobs.

[LtCol Henderson Marriott]

Parker 1923 AAHE, SN 203418 ordered with two(2) butt stocks and separate forends:
one stock for skeet and trap fitted with Hawkins heart pad. The other remaining butt stock was fitted with a skeletal steel engraved butt plate. Parker Bros. always endeavored to
please its client-customers wherever possible. This Parker was a third generation family gun.