Parker DHE Year of Manuf?

[Randy Roberts]

Looks like the stock has an inlay in the wrist to me which I would assume is there to hide a pin. Hard to say with those pics for sure.

[Jeffrey Eley]

Yeah, I just looked, the inlays in the wrist are on both sides (All the way thru). You are most likely correct, probably there to hide a pin\repair job. I don't know anything about that type of work, but whoever (Parker?) did it did a fantastic job.
Again, thanks to everyone who has responded to my thread, i'm learning a lot about it and definitely feel blessed that I now own it.

[J. Scott Hanes]

Probably would be a good idea to have the stock checked to make sure it has been repaired correctly before you shoot it much. Better to be sure.

[Jeffrey Eley]

Hey everyone I decided to take a closer look at those diamond shaped "inlays" and here are two pics. Thanks to everyone who offered helpful info to me.

[Dean Romig]

Yes, those are definitely to cover a stock head repair where the stock head had split. A through bolt and nut were likely used. Not a bad job. We've seem similar repairs.
Wonder if one of those Remington service dates would have been for that repair... but we'll never know. The type of service was never recorded.




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[Jeffrey Eley]

Dean,
Thanks for all of your input!

[B. Dudley]

Originally Posted by Randy G Roberts

Looks like the stock has an inlay in the wrist to me which I would assume is there to hide a pin. Hard to say with those pics for sure.

Yeah, I didnt even notice those without blowing the photos up. Two diamond inlays in the head.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

AD A = March D = 1935

RD3 R = November D = 1935 3 = repair

XE3 X = December E = 1936 3 = repair

Unfortunately, no records of what repair was done survive.

Interesting that the gun has PARKER on the bottom of the frame and a Remington date code on the barrel flat but has the PARKER BROS. rather than PARKER GUN WORKS - OVERLOAD PROVED stamp.

The manufacture of the gun could have begun prior to the 1934 date when Remington took control of the Parker Gun Works but finished and shipped during Remington ownership...?





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[Keith Doty]

WOW! Very nice and an heirloom to boot.

[ArtS]

I just read this due to a much later thread, but I do have to make one comment based on many of the posts made in this thread. While it is a beautiful gun, I have to say based on a lot of experience in woodworking, a little of it on guns, that I don't share the opinion of the work done on the inlays. While they are well color matched, the joint around them is not of a caliber that would be seen on any well executed piece of furniture or, particularly, a quality musical instrument. These were placed on flat sections of the stock so they should be expected to meet the same criteria. While the workmanship, I think, lacks a little, what caused me to post was that I think the worker made no attempt to match the grain. While these are relatively small and from a piece with similar color and grain, they were inlaid at a ridiculous angle of the stockwood grain. These should have closely followed the grain layout of the stock. If that had been done and a little more care taken with the patch inletting, the inlays would have beenalmost invisible without needing the cheeks checkered to cover it.

I'm not trying to be picky but it seems incongruent for work done on a hig level/ high condition gun.

The fact remains that it is a nice gun. If it were mine, I might be tempted instead of checkering the cheeks to have someone good redo the repairs to the cheeks.