** Parker DHE SxS Shotgun with Titanic Steel Barrels
Sale 1353 - Arms, Armor and Militaria
May 1, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$6,000 -
10,000
Price Realized
$4,500
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Lot Description
** Parker DHE SxS Shotgun with Titanic Steel Barrels
12 Gauge. 2.625" chamber lengths. 32" barrel length. SN: 234154. Full Choke left bore and Modified right. 14.25" length of pull. 1.5" drop to comb. 1.75" drop to heel. Blued metal finish with casehardened frame and mounting fancy Circassian walnut English style stock with beavertail forend and a factory ventilated barrel rib. Double-barrel hammerless side by side ejector boxlock shotgun with a leather wrapped buttplate. The shotgun mounts a 1 1/2 size frame that is marked PAT'D. OCT. 25. 1910. on the water tables and shows the DH grade marking below the serial number. The tang safety is blued with SAFE engraved into the tang forward of it. The barrel rib mounts twin bead sights with a matted texture pattern along its entire length, displaying an intact border at the muzzle end and silver solder at the rear seam. The rib is stamped PARKER BROS. MAKERS. MERIDEN CT. U.S.A. TITANIC STEEL within arrows on the rib itself. Further markings on the barrel flats read OVERLOAD/PARKER GUN WORKS/PROVED with the left chamber marked 3 and the right DD3 at the breech. The forend has casehardened metal parts with bordered checkering and the inside flat showing a matching serial number along with the mark PATD. MAY 7. 1901. The frame, triggerguard, tangs, and lever all display Parker style scrollwork and borders surrounding triple vignettes including hunting dogs on the flanks and four pheasants below the frame. Further scrollwork adorns the borders on the forend, and the breech ends of the barrels.
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