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Parker Bros. Shotgun Info needed

N.C.TillouN.C.Tillou Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
edited January 2007 in Ask the Experts
Don't know anything about shotguns,I'm a rifle guy but because I know something about rifles my buds all think I know about all guns. Anyhow bud of mine has old Parker he wants to know value off. Per "Blue Book" one needs to know model to evaluate. This gun has no serial#, nothing stamped under bbls except patent dates and there are two "13's" stamped as if they are 13 to the 13th power. It is a hammer gun with twist bbls. Not old enough to have the under opening device. So when did Parker start numbering guns and how does one determine the model of a gun that old?
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  • Bert H.Bert H. Member Posts: 11,281 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A "true" Parker Bros. SxS shotgun will have a serial number on it. There was never a time when they did not mark them (unless one of their employees made up a lunchbox special). The serial number was stamp in three locations; (1) On the lower tang; (2) On the bottom side of the barrels near the lug; and (3) on stell portion of the forestock piece. If your buddie's gun is not marked in any of those locations, assume that it was a lunchbox special.

    WACA Historian & Life Member

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