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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy
What combination was used to pattern a certain gun is only the combination that was used on that gun and the only way we know that is to read the order book specifications, which sometimes didn't make it to the finished gun, or the stock book entry, which is the spec for the finished gun, or the original hang tag, which should also be the spec for the finished gun. Guns on the same page of the stock book with the same specifications are often patterned with a different combination of components.
There does not seem to be a standard or a clear cutoff date among various methods.
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So Bill, are we to assume that any gun produced for 'stock' and later to be sold as part of a very large 'stock' order by one of Parker Bros. larger wholesale customers would have been randomly patterned by any number of the various patterning methods in use at the time?
I prefer to believe there was "method" to what otherwise must be seen as "madness".
This may be a bottomless pit...
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