(Original fluid steel barrels replaced by new Damascus)

[Double Play]

Originally Posted by Frank Cronin

Now to my original question with a couple of scenarios. We are in the mid 1920’s and a customer wants to buy a new GH Parker but wants it ordered with Damascus barrels instead of the Parker Special Steel. Customer supplies the barrels. Second, a customer in the mid 1920’s has a fluid steel gun, say a VH or a Trojan whose barrels got severely damaged. Money is tight and can not afford “new” fluid steel barrels for replacement so the customer supplied the factory with his own Parker Damascus barrels to repair.

Frank

Frank,
It is my belief that Parker would install customer supplied or Damascus barrels they had in house at a customers request. Below is a picture of an AHE that was ordered with 30 in fluid steel barrels but came to me with the original barrels as well as a set of grade 7 Damascus barrels. Look closely at the fit at the breech and how the barrel wedge engraving matches that of the frame and tell me this work was not done in the PB factory. Here is a link to the forums archive section to a post I made a while ago that has more pictures and information about the gun.
http://parkerguns.org/archive/parker...rum1/6990.html