AHE damascus

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

It’s just you Edgar... they are most definitely original

Perhaps, but the wedges are plainly not if the same hand as the receiver. I’d like to see another example of documented Grade 6 Damascus barrels with engraved barrel wedges.



**edited to add Grade 6

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

Perhaps, but the wedges are plainly not if the same hand as the receiver. I’d like to see another example of documented Damascus barrels with engraved barrel wedges.

Again Edgar, I beg to disagree with you. In my opinion the wedges are very likely to have been engraved by the same "hand" as the rest of the gun. Just look, for example, at the band of engraving encircling the breech end of the barrels and see that its execution is exactly the same as the corresponding band of engraving on the breech balls. Consider also that engraving Damascus has its own set of problems to overcome that are not present in homologus fluid pressed steel, very likely requiring a different approach or practice of execution than the fluid pressed steel. And there may also be variables we're not even considering in the level of difficulty presented by the Damascus barrels.

Again, I believe this is the only known set of Damascus barrels with such engraved wages. Highly respected Parker collectors agree with this premise regarding this gun.




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[Bill Mullins]

Many years ago when visiting Chadicks Ltd I saw a set of Damascus barrels that
had belonged to a AAH grade gun. They had the barrel engraved wedges. The gun at one time had been returned to the factory for fluid steel barrels to be added. Herschel said the gun had both sets of barrels when he purchased it. The
gun was sold with the steel barrels only as according to Herschel the buyer did
not want the Damascus barrels as he believed them to be unsafe!! I have always
regretted not trying to buy those barrels. They were beautiful. This incident occurred in the 1980's well before we started researching and writing The Parker Story.

[Autumn Daze]

Dean and Bill, Doesn’t Larry’s AA Damascus barrels have the wedge engraving?

[Bill Mullins]

Yes, Dave they do. I was merely pointing out that there could be more than one set of Damascus barrels produced with wedge engraving..... AA or A grade.