A person that worked in my dad's US Government agency wrote me a letter when I became interested in Parker guns at a tender age. He mentioned that he owned an A1 Special Parker and if I remember correctly, may have sent a picture. He also mentioned Frank Novotny and proclaimed him to be a very skilled gunsmith. In going through the Parker records, I found evidence that Novotny had ordered Parker parts making me suspect that he was building Parkers, or maybe upgrading them. My dad's friend lived near Novotny and probably knew him. I suspect that my dad's friend did not really have a Parker A1 Special, but an upgrade built by Novotny. I have never been able to locate the correspondence from that person. However, I think I have the Novotny information that I copied from the Parker records when I was in the Remington Archives at Ilion.
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