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  • Fergi_B_Good
    Junior Member
    • Jun 2017
    • 23

    I inherited this from my Grandmother 1902 Parker Brothers

    Some of you Shotgunners maybe interested to see this (actually anybody who appreciates finely made firearms). This is a Vulcan Parker Brothers I inherited about 10 years back from my grandmother. It belonged to her father...my Great Grandfather. According to the serial number this particular piece was manufactured in 1902. Unfortunately the original stock has been modified with a recoil pad and the barrel has been re-blued...regardless it is a very fine piece of work. My grandmother passed it on to me after it sat under her bed for 50 some odd years.

    As the story goes (and we all know how stories often get exaggerated) my great grandfather and his best friend each bought one of these shotguns with consecutive serial numbers. They then promised each other that whoever died first would bestow the sister gun to the other. Obviously that never happened, but somewhere out there is a sister shotgun with a SN either one number higher, or one number lower...If I ever come across that gun...
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    Garv the innocent
    RSG Minion, Senior
    CGN Contributor - Lifetime
    • Apr 2014
    • 8979

    I am not much of a true shotgunner but: Nice!
    Originally posted by Kestryll:
    It never fails to amuse me how people get outraged but fail to tell the whole story in their rants....

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    • #3
      Hammertime
      Veteran Member
      • Mar 2011
      • 3495

      Very nice,
      This is a good resource for confirmation on the DOM and so forth, the letters and wood checking is brilliant, u may have a museum piece.
      Cheers
      HT

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      • #4
        Hammertime
        Veteran Member
        • Mar 2011
        • 3495

        Sorry didn't paste http://www.lcsmith.org/shotguns/manufacture.html

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        • #5
          johnthomas
          Calguns Addict
          • Mar 2009
          • 7001

          The work done is first rate. That is beautiful.
          I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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          • #6
            audiction
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2012
            • 785

            very nice...congrats!

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            • #7
              Dano3467
              Calguns Addict
              • Mar 2013
              • 7381

              That is sweet looking

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              • #8
                Fergi_B_Good
                Junior Member
                • Jun 2017
                • 23

                Hammertime Thanks for the resource!

                I'll try to get a picture in better light one of these days.
                Last edited by Fergi_B_Good; 07-14-2017, 4:38 PM.

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                • #9
                  sovereign2b
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2013
                  • 711

                  Sweet! That is one beautiful gun!

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                  • #10
                    MeatyMac
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2013
                    • 1789

                    Post a pic of the water table (the inside flats of the receiver) and I can tell you what grade it is. The top rib of the barrel has a pattern rolled into it to cut glare, does the pattern extend all the way to the front of the rib in front of the bead or does the pattern stop for about 3/32" and go flat, no pattern, at the very end? Also, what's the barrel length and what gauge is it?

                    Be nice to see a couple of pics of the sides and bottom of the receiver, especially if it's a GH or better grade.

                    Mac

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                    • #11
                      Fergi_B_Good
                      Junior Member
                      • Jun 2017
                      • 23

                      Thanks MeatyMac! Here's some more detailed pictures...some are better than others..the cellphone can only do so much.
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                      • #12
                        Fergi_B_Good
                        Junior Member
                        • Jun 2017
                        • 23

                        And a few more pictures. For those who may have trouble reading the SN because of my crappy pictures it is 131511. 12 Gauge, 28" barrel.
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                        • #13
                          Fergi_B_Good
                          Junior Member
                          • Jun 2017
                          • 23

                          MeatyMac PM sent

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                          • #14
                            JS41989
                            Senior Member
                            • Dec 2015
                            • 1157

                            Gorgeous gun!

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                            • #15
                              M1NM
                              Calguns Addict
                              • Oct 2011
                              • 7966

                              Beautiful - and I thought Parker Brother only made games.

                              They were in business 75 years and produced less than 250,000 guns.
                              Parker guns were often seen as the gun of choice by celebrities including Annie Oakley, Frank Butler, Clark Gable, as well as the top ranked competition shooters of the day.

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