Image Lot Price Description














3496
$37,375.00

*EXCEPTIONALLY RARE ULTRA LIGHTWEIGHT 28 GAUGE PARKER CHE.

SN 191074. Cal. 28 ga. 00 Frame. 2-1/2″ Chambers. 26″ Acme steel bbls have all correct factory markings on bbl flats and rear lump. Case hardened action has lightening cuts on water table, and features automatic safety and nickel-plated double triggers. Action is engraved in typical “C” style with dogs on either side surrounded by medium scroll with geometric borders. A swimming duck is in marsh on trigger plate. “PARKER BROS” is in scrolled band on each side of action. Finely marbled and lightly figured European walnut Parker capped pistol grip buttstock measures 14″ over skeleton steel buttplate and features lozenge-shaped drop points, fancy border checkering with mullered borders, and a vacant silver oval on toe line. Matching splinter ejector forend has typical release and steel forend tip. Bore diameter: left-.562, right -.571. Bore restrictions: left -.012 (Mod), right -.022 (Extra full). Minimum wall thickness: left -.021, right -.021. Drop at heel: 3-1/8″, drop at comb: 1-9/16″. Weight: 5 lbs. 4 oz. LOP: 14″. This guns SN is not listed in PARKER GUN IDENTIFICATION AND SERIALIZATION ledger. CONDITION: Excellent, as restored. Bbls retain nearly all of a correctly colored re-blue with some subsequent silvering and light marks. Action retains most of a correctly colored re-hardening, silvered from normal carry wear. Stocks retain nearly all of a hand rubbed oil finish, with a number of marks, checkering re-cut. Bores are excellent. Action is tight. Ejectors are strong and in time. THE PARKER STORY indicates that approx 20 “C” grade 28 bores were made, only seven in this barrel length in all types of bbl material, four with Acme steel. A snappy little quail gun. 4-51027 MGM228 (30,000-50,000) – Lot 3496


Auction: Firearms - Spring 2014
Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.