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Yes, and whoever designed and built it, it was experimental and never went into production by either company.
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The gun in question was likely the Hammerless conversion of a lifter done by Lefever arms. It was sold by Morphys maybe 5-6 years ago and is currently for sale by Puglisi. It can be seen on GI. This gun was actually converted to a manual side cocking hammerless.
Mr. Herzog owns a top action hammerless conversion. Likely also done by Lefever, but that gun is not marked as such, but the mechanics are lefever. That one was converted to an automatic hammerless action utilizing lefever cocking rod design. Lefever was the inventor of the first commercially sucessful hammerless shotgun in America. They did hammerless conversions to many different hammer guns in the earlier days. Likely any gun that was sent to them by a customer. Much like breechloading conversions from mizzleloaders. It was a way for the earlier talented gunmakers to stay working with jobs and helping people stay up to speed with modern firearms technology but not have to buy a new gun. Certainly any of these conversions were done in low numbers and would be rare to find today.
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02-04-2021, 09:24 AM | #5 | ||||||
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I love the underlifter design and can't understand why it went out of favor. As far as ergonomics is concerned it's a no-brainer.
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02-04-2021, 09:26 AM | #6 | ||||||
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https://www.gunsinternational.com/gu...n_id=101499602
This looks like it might be the one? |
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02-04-2021, 10:07 AM | #7 | ||||||
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That’s the one - and Lefever incorporated their own side-cocking design too and patented it all. Everything else is Parker Bros, right down to the engraving.
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At the 2014 Las Vegas Antique Arms Show there was a 12ga. Grade 3 toplever hammergun converted to hammerless that I and others had seen and handled. The ask on it was less $4K. Here's a link to that discussion and there's a link within this thread that takes you to another thread that includes a couple of pics taken by PML. I am not sure if it is the exact same gun discussed in both threads.
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...ight=hammergun
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I took a double take on that two-dog engraving on the trigger guard.
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