In the cell phone pictures you posted of the engraved legend on the top rib there are some 'inconsistencies' in the matting that cause me to wonder if they may have engraved the matting, at least the matting beneath the the legend.





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Dean, It's your expert eyes that had me posting all those pics, to be able to get the "whole picture," so to speak.

Are you talking about the chevrons below the engraved text? By inconsistencies, do you mean that the matting isn't exactly symmetrical? Should it be?

Those two pics, shot with a cellphone camera, were lighted by my super-bright Sheriff's Deputy's flashlight, held close and at a low oblique, to eliminate reflection but still allow the camera to see the lettering. Should I get some more of the whole rib?

The matting looks perfectly normal to me. Some Inconsistencies are commonly seen in matting since each line was cut mechanically one at a time.

Nonetheless, they may or may not have been done by machine and to my eye some appear to have been engraved. Typically the matting was done by machine and I have not seen matting with that kind of inconsistencies that had been done by machine.


"Always" and "never" are two words we shy away from when discussing Parkers.


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Always and never are to words I try to shy away from, because Murphy likes me quite a lot for some reason.

So, the rib looks 95% normal with some small inconsistencies and the concusion is that it was hand cut? Wow. Thats a pretty big leap.

Without getting into a umm, 'contest'... The machine that cut the individual matting lines incorporated a 'track' that the cutter followed so that each wavy line would exactly replicate the one next to it. The "inconsistencies" I see are in some of those lines NOT being exactly the same as the line next to it - that's all I have to say on the matter.





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Hey Dean

Not to get into this fracas about what you see or do not see, I can only say that DISTORTION is a function of the lens curvature ( my early photographic mapping days) ----I am sure cell phones do not have the best glass to create a lens.

Just my view on the matter.

Allan

Being a lifelong resident of Rochester NY I would love to own a gun from my hometown. Beautiful Parker thanks for sharing.

CL, born in Strong Memorial, lived in Greece, next to Greece Olympia HS.