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Unread 01-07-2020, 08:03 PM   #31
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Beautiful gun Ralph, and a first Parker to boot!!
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Wow, great first Parker. That wood work is wonderful!
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Thanks Mike & Larry, now I just need to figure out its history.

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Hey Ralph, welcome to the Members Club!
I didn’t see your earlier post til now. I’m on a mini vacation.
I believe if you click on the link below it will end up getting you a letter on your first Parker!
http://parkerguns.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=41
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Thanks for the link Mike, I will spend some time looking through the forums and then get a letter. I ordered the Parker Story, and I am waiting on it to arrive. The research continues, but that is the fun part.

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Ralph, the Parker Story is a great historical work. One of the authors, Bill Mullins, haunts these forums and is a great guy. If you can swing it, come to Sanford, NC April 23, 24, 25 and 26. You will see more Parker’s than you have ever seen before. You will make new friends that share your passion for these great guns. You will see first hand why the PGCA is the country’s premiere gun collector organization. And if you’re lucky, you just might meet award wining author John Davis.
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Or better yet, award winning author Mike Franzen.
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Thanks Mike for the invite to Sanford, NC April 23, 24, 25 and 26. That would be great to see that show, meet the members, and all those Parker's. Not sure I will be able to make it, but you never know.

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Guys, have you seen variations in the SBT roll stamped barrel markings on the left side of the barrel. I have seen these variations on several other barrels. Are they variations due to the roll stamping process, or from polishing off of the old bluing in this area. As deep as the roll stamping is it is hard to believe polishing could remove that much stamping material. The first figure is of my barrel, note the variations on the far left bottom and the far right top. The second and third and fourth pics have similar or no variations.

Please let me know what you think,

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Ralph, for what it's worth: yours of course has been customized, the second and fourth appear to have been "restored" and no. 3 looks original.
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