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Originally Posted by Alex Brushwein
Ok, so this particular gun is S/N 124889 (1904 date), which would align with your S/N range listed above.
What were they specifying at that time with these stamps? Is it as Dean suggested? That would make sense to me. Here I was thinking the 'f' was a mis-stamped V... I should have known better 
I appreciate the responses and the info! |
People at Parker Brothers in the 1890s and early 1900s knew what those marks meant, but we can only speculate. We begin seeing the W.K in oval Walter King mark on the left barrel flat and still see the K and K
f in the barrel steel location in the low 130xxx serial number range.
130158 01a 12-gauge, 30-inch Titanic, K barrel steel mark and WK in oval.jpg
131783 03 K in barrel Steel Location.jpg
My speculation is that the change from the K and K
f to the letters, usually in a circle, indicates a change in supplier of the rough steel tubes.