Frame Sizes....

[Fishtail]

It's also possible that they did stamp an '8' for 8 ga rather than frame size. It would have obviously been a very unusual gun to come down the line and could well have received unusual stampings. It also could have been a '6' that looked like an '8'.

[Bill Murphy]

My friend's D grade top action is stamped with a definite "8". It is hard to make a 7 look like an 8. Let's see if we can find the Bill Furnish article.

[Roundsworth]

Austin Hogan wrote an article for the Spring 2008 DGJ. On page 60, he stated, "....Bill Furnish reported examining two (8 frame Parkers), in his correspondence with the authors of The Parker Story." That's all there was.

[Bill Murphy]

In the early days of Parker research, many collectors did not carry a ruler, much less a micrometer or vernier caliper. Bill Furnish may have been one of those collectors. Show me someone who has reportedly seen a #8 frame Parker, and I'll show you someone who did not measure the pin separation. My friend's gun marked 8 mentioned in the earlier post is a #7 frame gun.