Also have a Browsing Sweet 16 and 12 gauge Remington model 11 that belonged to my uncle. He was from around Luffkin, TX and had some good stories about love, life, and the cotton fields of east Texas. Old Charley would show up every day just in time for lunch. He use to go to lunch with me every day when I was in business. Given to me by a old Black man who passed away about 25 years ago. I have model 97 windcheater with what looks like the domestic barrel. Sure hated to see an old fried die so she sets in the corner by the door leading to the garage for me to see and say "Good job girl you were worth your keep." By the way it had a steel barrel not the domestic barrel you mentioned.
I tied the Breech close with a piece of piano wire for safety. I said "H ay, let go shoot some shell with the old T Barker for old time sake" He answered "Don't think you want to do that Dad" Then he told me the story. just for the hell of it when he was home from OU. Open the breech and it fell apart in my hands. About 5 years after the blow out I picked the T Barker off it rack to clean the cobwebs from around it. A idiot friend on my son's slipped him a modern plastic shell with a double load in it as a prank. It finally got it match when my son was about 13 years old.
However one time jolt when borrowed they never came back to borrow the T Barker. That trick came in handy when I was firing an M-1 grand as I was drafted into the Army.
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Didn't bother me as I had earned how to take the jolt Just by letting it buck and let you body take the punch. Because of the way it kicked now and then it became out loaning gun. She could knock a squirrel out of the Tallest tree in Smackover Creek bottom in Union county Arkansas. The T Barker was more or less retired unless of course my mother went hunting with us. At six Santa brought me a JC Higgens bolt action 410. We always got our rabbit but our ears would ring for a while after each shot. Took turns laying it on each other's shoulder to fire it.
My cousin and I hunted rabbits with it before we were big enough to hold it up. So that is the story my grand mother told me. The barrel had been cut off by my mothers younger brother as he shot it accidentally with the barrel stuck in the ground rupturing about 3 inches of its barrel. As a boy I use 2 1/2 in it and one of ever 5 or 6 shot the wadding would hang up in the three inch chamber and it would stomp the hell out of you. Octagon shaped breech down about 6 inches of the barrel. It had a Silver Irish Setter inlaided on the left hand side hammer assembly. The first shot gum I ever fired was a 12 Ga T Barker,side by side. NEVER shoot smokeless shells in these guns.
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I have had mine checked by a good gunsmith and do shoot hand loaded, full length brass shells loaded with light black powder loads. A more realistic value would be $100-150 in really good condition. You can see them priced at $200-300 on some auction sites, but they rarely sell. The barrel construction is almost certainly a twisted-wire construction and the pressure curve of modern shells ,even "low-brass" can certainly cause the barrels to come apart. Under no circumstances should a T BARKER shotgun be fired. Nothing has changed today, and their value is strictly whatever somebody will pay to have something hanging on the wall. These shotguns were designed to be utility shotguns and were low priced when they were new. The proofmark is the letter 'E' over 'LG' in an oval or variant thereof. Look for the telltale Belgian proofmark underneath the barrels and on the water table (flat part of the frame where the barrels meet the frame). They were generally imported from Belgium and distributed by the H&D Folsom Co. "Shotguns marked 'T BARKER' were sold by various hardware store and catalog stores in c.1880-1910 (or so). I also have an old T.Barker much like yours that I got a year or so back.
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