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Phil, have you figured out whether Orphan Annie is Dick Baldwin's old gun? How many 27" single traps could there be?
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Bill, it seems like some circumstantial evidence is there but nothing you could take to court. Annie does have an unengraved gold-colored oval inlayed in the stock, and there's an oval showing on Dick's. Dick's has what appears to me to be a Hawkins pad; Annie has a plexi spacer under a more recent pad which could be evidence of the stock having been shortened at some point. But I've exhausted all the directions I know to go; nobody I've found seems to know anything about my gun, nor what ever happened to Dick's.
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They’re certainly rare to say the least Mike. The Parker Story will have a total in the grades section though.
Mine’s not a SBT but I have a documented 16 ga. D Lifter with 27” Parker-made Laminated Steel barrels… unique in this configuration. .
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A pic in Dick Baldwin's book shows him as a youngster shooting a Parker SC with an obviously shorter barrel. When I first bought Annie most folks agreed that the rib treatment at the muzzle was not Parker work, so the assumption was that the barrel had been shortened. But as I wrote in PP, the choke measures full so...? My letter shows that Annie left the factory with a 34" barrel. As I recall TPS lists a few 28" SBTs but no 27's.
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Now that is a cool picture!
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It would be really cool if you could tie her back to a young Dick Baldwin.
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