Widow’s Peak Butt Plates

[Bill Zachow]

What is the latest serial number for a gun with the widow’s peak butt plate? I have a GH 12 with damascus barrels, serial 220657, that has such a plate. Earlier guns that I have owned, another G and a V in the 170,000 range both had flat butt plates

[Dean Romig]

A friend has 236199 , an early Remington era Parker which has the spurred butt plate.

The butt plate is of questionable pedigree as do the checkered cheek panels. I have shown pictures of it before but here they are again.
There are no records that allude to these two features but there is no evidence that clearly says they are not original.

In my opinion when Remington needed butt plates that did not say "Parker Brothers" they might very easily have come up with this. But that doesn't explain the Parker Bros. grip cap and it doesn't explain why they would have resurrected a butt stock with mortise for the spurred butt plate. The wood finish and checkering condition, along with the small amount of wear to the butt plate all seem to validate the condition of the case colors.

And we have empirical evidence in The Parker Story that tells that the spurred butt plate was discontinued by a particular year... because nobody had seen a later gun with the spurred butt plate.


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[B. Dudley]

The mid 1920’s was the change in buttplates. I have not been able to narrow down a serial range.