I'm kind of slow, please help me come through the fog and see the light. From the Parker Repro Production Chart on the Parker Grades page it says that:
* 16 A-1 Special 28/.410 sets were produced--these obviously were built on a 00-frame.
* 9 BHE .410 guns were produced--no frame size is listed, but it's assumed these were on a 0000-frame, right? If we assume Sisley's reporting is accurate, we know at least 33 0000-frame guns were completed, but we don't know what grade they were finished out in. From the pic I posted above we see that it is a 0000-frame BHE and it is #52, so it can be assumed there are at least 52 BHEs, or more, on a 0000-frame out there--and there were 100 more 0000-frame guns at the time at the time of Sisley's article that were started. We do know that Gournet engraved some of those as A-1 Specials, but we don't know how many he finished or if he, or other gunsmiths, finished them and in what grades.
* 33 DHE .410 guns were produced, but we don't know what frame size they were built on--were they on a 00 or 0000-frame?? Where did this quantity of 33 come from?
Do we know definitively how many Repro .410s were built on a 00-frame?
Do we know the number of DHE and BHE 28/.410 00-frame sets that were built?
Maybe there's no answers to the above, but if you're like me and enjoy the hobby, you'd like to know. At the very least, it appears the production chart could use a little help, it's our collective knowledge that can provide that help.
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