Parker SxS
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Hello Group, While this message might be better suited to rec.guns, I know some of you participate in both list. One of the people I work with has just inherited a Parker side by side and needs to know it’s rough value. She couldn’t give me too much information on condition, but it’s a 12 gauge with a serial number of 204XXX. If any of you have a Blue Book of Gun Values out there and could give me the gamut or what it might be worth, I would appreciate it. Michael Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/
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>One of the people I work with has just inherited a Parker side by side and >needs to know it’s rough value.
Michal; ALL Parker shotguns are collectible and may be quite valuable. You don’t want to get an estimate of the gun’s value here, from someone who can’t examine the gun to determine the model and condition. You MUST take the gun to a competent, honest gun dealer/gunsmith. Neil Hoffman Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/
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>Michal; >ALL Parker shotguns are collectible and may be quite valuable. You >don’t want to get an estimate of the gun’s value here, from someone >who can’t examine the gun to determine the model and condition. >You MUST take the gun to a competent, honest gun dealer/gunsmith. >Neil Hoffman
Well, OK….. To try to answer Michael’s question, Problem is for most people a competent, honest gundealer/gunsmith is either nowhere nearby, or they don’t know who fits this description. There is another problem too…Parker Collecting is an esoteric area of the gun collecting world, where there are few real experts, competence is very rare…and lastly the value of two Parkers even of the same models, can range from a price of "X" to as much as "10X" or even higher given such things as gauge, original condition, and verifiable special features….which is what you were getting at with the "sight unseen" comments. In my experience at least 99.9% of all gun dealers, whether they’re honest or not, are most likely way out of their league when it comes to evaluating these guns. The same can be said regarding just about any esoteric area of the gun collecting world. And although it’s true that it is hard to get info over the internet or phone, when the gun can’t be seen…the info you do get may be just as good as you’d get from some gun value book, or a dealer who sees 2-3 Parkers per decade. So if the original poster wants to furnish info about the gun beginning with model designation (there is a number stamped on the water table which identifies grade, also the name of the type of steel used in the barrels is displayed on the rib, and helps to id), the guage, the barrel length, ejector or extractor configuaration, length of pull, trigger layout, and stock configuration including buttplate description….then I could hazard a a guess. Bear in mind that even after all that info has been provided…that if the gun is refinished, and you can’t tell the difference it could be worth as little as 50% of what a simialr unrefinished gun would bring. Or alternatively, you could pose the same question along with all this information to the list on the Shooting Sportsman Magazine web-board. I wouldn’t take any opinions from any internet source (including me) as gospel…but…I promise you, you’ll know a hell of alot more after that exercise than you do now. joe "The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets" –from an old NRA ‘junk mail’ solicitation– Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/
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> One of the people I work with has just inherited a Parker side by side and > needs to know it’s rough value. She couldn’t give me too much information > on condition, but it’s a 12 gauge with a serial number of 204XXX. If any of > you have a Blue Book of Gun Values out there and could give me the gamut or > what it might be worth, I would appreciate it. > Michael
It’s probably old and worn out by now, and nobody wants those old double barrels anyway — everybody is shooting the more modern pumps and autos. If you want, I’ll take it off your hands for you for the cost of shipping. (Don’t listen to anybody else’s opinions, just send your mailing address to the email given above.) Kevin, always trying to help. Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/
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I think you may find a Parker is worth taking to a major auction house for appraisal. A gun store is out of its league except to advise that it is valuable. Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text —— Original Message —– Newsgroups: rec.hunting Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 4:23 PM > Hello Group, > While this message might be better suited to rec.guns, I know some of you > participate in both list. > One of the people I work with has just inherited a Parker side by side and > needs to know it’s rough value. She couldn’t give me too much information > on condition, but it’s a 12 gauge with a serial number of 204XXX. If any of > you have a Blue Book of Gun Values out there and could give me the gamut or > what it might be worth, I would appreciate it. > Michael You have to tell us the Model and condition…could be worth from hundreds to in excess of $75,000. Lance Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/
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Your best bet is to find someplace on the internet where guns such as yours have been auctioned, and the selling price. Blue book values are worthless, except to indicate that the gun may be ‘valuable’. I remember looking at Dixie Gun Works recently, they had some side-by-sides that were used, etc., some in cases, some not, and they were basically selling for 700 or so. The upward range for the really nice guns in fitted leather cases with matching spare barrels or whatever was considerable, though. Before you buy. Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/
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Thomas M. Reynolds wrote >I think you may find a Parker is worth taking to a major auction house for >appraisal. A gun store is out of its league except to advise that it is >valuable.
I wouldn’t get excited just yet. There are a lot of Parkers out there for $400. Take it to any big gunshop that sells used side-by-sides. Get them to tell you what all the particulars are – model, bbl length, ejectors/extractors, whether the gun appears to be in original condition vs. re-blued or refinished, what condition they would say the gun is in, etc. Then go to the BBS at www.gunshop.com and post the particulars and ask the guys to give you a valuation estimate. Could be $500 or $50,000, depending on rarity of model and condition. Cush Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/
