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Originally Posted by Mills Morrison
Yes, none of the really early hammerless Parkers I have seen have the fishtail and the earlier toplever hammer guns do not either.
The fishtails seem to appear on hammerless Parkers around 66,000
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well- how is this for a theory -
when the hammerless first came onto the scene - they were still making and selling hammer guns as well, so the FT still fit a need
as the newfangled hammerless guns took off and hammer gun sales began to decline- the need to use up the FT lever inventory became apparent - so they started putting them on some of the new design.
that would explain why early hammerless do not have them but after a while for a short range of numbers - they show up regularly
BTW - its within your known range - my latest made FT is PH # 70168
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