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11-15-2011, 04:53 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Well noted, but it always struck me as to WHY someone would do that? In the days of pre-internet, to mislead a buyer? But you simply cant ignore/hide the lines of the sleeve.
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11-15-2011, 05:21 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Well Tom, as the great philosophers have pondered, how can we know the unknowable? Maybe the gunsmith who did the work was able to fool himself, never know.
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11-15-2011, 05:48 PM | #5 | ||||||
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I agree that it is a bit of a bonehead or at least un-required move to remark the barrels. But maybe whoever did the work wanted to make sure that people knew it could be shot without fear. There used to be a time, and I do not think we are fully past it, that if it said "Damascus" it was to be never fired.
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11-15-2011, 07:52 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Over the years we have seen an awful lot of Parker and other guns altered in similar ways with the express purpose of deceiving an unsuspecting buyer. Most of them should have been left alone and would be worth quite a bit more today than in their altered states.
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