Will the congregation please turn to page 339 in their hymnals (TPS)

Boy Dean, you are really sharp! So what do you think? Just an artists rendition of what the panel should look like or possibly a different AAHE?

BTW, your post was great, TPS really is our bible and our religion is Parkerology.

I can't take credit for the TPS reference... I was tipped off to it.

The picture in my initial post starting this thread was my own photograph of a photograph of the gun in the August 1976 issue of "The Gun Report". The Parker Story was published in 1998. Draw your own conclusions....

Here's another -




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Stamps on the Barrel Flats
 

Looking at another picture of # 175048 on that same page of The Gun Report (August, 1976) - I see these numbers: 43112 and 43113 on the barrel flats.

Are these numbers assigned by the manufacturer, Whitworth?

And if so, I guess the number sequences were somewhere on the tubes themselves. Then stamped here again on the plate of the barrel flats when the two tubes were matched up and assembled together.

I see Whitworth referred to only once in TPS (at page 508).

Have not yet found a picture of the barrel flats on another example of Whitworth steel barrels.

Yes, Whitworth sequentially serialized and stamped their barrel tube pairs. This has been discussed on the PGCA forum but it might be on the previous archived forum and it may have been included in a Parker Pages article which could be researched in the PP Digital Archive.





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To answer the first part of your original posting. I am posting a picture of a Francotte I own with very similar panel checkering. As always tap on picture for best resolution.