Thanks for the information Bill. Sounds like it could be a repro if the black vs. brown wood holds to be the norm...Other than that there is no stamping or any other marking that would tell the reader that it is a reproductoin.
Kurt
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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
The staples on my 1929 repro catalog are rusty and appear to be round. I don't know whose repro it is, but it has "Reprint" stamped in red ink inside the back cover. I have seen others with no stamp. Most Lightner repros have Lightner stamps. The guns in my repro have black stocks, while the stocks in the originals are brown. I don't know exactly when various repros were printed. I'm sure some were available as early as the sixties. Think about it this way: When the repro catalogs were getting started, Parker shotguns had been out of production for fewer years than Japanese Parker Repros have been out of production today.
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