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[james nedela]

Need some help to ID the extra barrel. I may have the answer already. I have the Parker serialization book, but states "0" under the extras column. Does that mean the extra barrel with gun was not factory supplied? It has the matching serial #, but that's surely not conclusive. I have not seen the gun in person (this weekend) so don't know if the barrels are original length. 25" & 30", 12 ga, serial # is 109546, DH grade. Thanks in advance for any input, Jim.

[OH Osthaus]

a second barrel ordered later and fitted at the factory would be numbered to the gun but not on the original record

[King Cobb]

If there is records for the gun a letter should verify if the 2nd set of barrels are factory. I have a DH that had a 2nd set of barrels fitted at factory 15 or so years later and its in the letter.

[B. Dudley]

If the barrels were fitted on a later return to the factory, it would not be listed in the serialzation book.

A second barrel set will be serial number matched to the gun, it will have a “2” on the forend lug and it will have it’s own forend which will also have a “2” on it.
Similarly, the first barrel will have a “1” on it and its forend.

The 25” length is suspect.

Unless you can verify it is a second factory set. The second barrel adds little for value.

[james nedela]

Thanks to all, just the kind of help I needed, Jim.

[John Knobelsdorf II]

Query: A second barrel with its own forend will look prettier in the case compared to a bare barrel. But, are these so closely fitted and custom to a particular barrel that the forends are not interchangeable?

Even on a set fit to the same breech?

Mr. Dudley confirms what I have seen before, that: "A second barrel set will be serial number matched to the gun, ...and it will have it’s own forend".

His information highlights a fact for me; so now I just wonder, is that necessary?

[King Cobb]

That would depend. Mine is a 10 12 set that are made up to weigh the same on the gun. The forends are not interchangeable.

[Dean Romig]

It was always the standard practice for Parker Bros. When supplying additional barrel sets that each additional barrel set would have its own forend and that they be stamped 1, 2, 3, 4, again, as a ‘standard’ practice.





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[Bill Murphy]

The "0" in the extras column indicates no extras like ejectors, single trigger, extra barrels or any other item that would add to the cost.

[edgarspencer]

I had a GH damascus 16 on an 0 frame with two sets of barrels and lettered accordingly. The barrels were not stamped with a number one, and number two, on either the barrels or fore end lugs. They were, of coarse, SN'd the same.