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Thank you Russ. I was pretty sure the barrel had seen some "work".
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You are quite Welcome Troy ,I believe we all figured the Barrels had seen some work ! Still ,wouldn't hurt to have a letter on the gun ,If you decide to display it on the wall as you have said ,you would have the info. on the gun ,some letters haven't much info. while others often have some very interesting facts about it ! Russ
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Here is an additional photo of the left side of the stock. They went out of their way marking this one up.
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Hmm. That small badge just behind the top lever was something that had me looking hard at this as wells fargo. I see now a couple examples of it on some old parker guns and assume they original to the guns from parker. Was it put there by parker and was there a reason?
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02-29-2012, 02:33 PM | #7 | ||||||
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Troy, The badge is a factory item. It was used for owners initials if they so chose to have it done.
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Thank you Dave.
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One can only hope it's an authentic WF gun. Even if it isn't, it's one hell of a great wall hanger!!
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I see one of these "Wells Fargo" guns at every hillbilly gun show. That's not meant as an insult, I'm a hillbilly myself. I'm afraid that 99.99999% of them are faked up. If they're a Parker and they don't letter or have some other kind of provenance to make them real then they're just what you see. An old sawed off shotgun that somebody has added markings to. I think if you'll search GunBroker you'll find several of various types for sale for everything from reasonable to ridiculous.
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