Bill Zachow,
I'm pasting an old e-mail I sent to Bill Mullins. You can see his reply. I guess I should have mentioned that in my first reply to this thread.
On Oct 9, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Charles Bishop <pgcaresearch@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> I got a request for a research letter for S/N 158846. It's listed in the Serialization Book but the Stock Book for that gun is missing. Books 54,55,and 56 are missing. Book 53 ends with 150697 and book 57 starts with 159362. How is it that the Serialization Book lists many guns that we don't have the stock books for????
>
> Hope you can shed some light on this.
>
> Thanks, Chuck
On 10/9/2013 12:31 PM,
billmullins42@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello Chuck!
> When we did TPS Remington let us copy the stock books but not the order books. However, they did let Roy Gunther take home one order book at a time so he/we could go through them & extract guns D grade & higher so we could include those serial numbers in our book. Of course, that same data base formed the Serialization Book.
> Therefore, most if not all came from the Order Books. Late Remington/Parker numbers from IBM cards.
> Hope that helps in answering the missing stock book numbers.
> Bill