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Unread 02-21-2017, 10:44 PM   #17
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I can agree with all of that Edgar, with the exception that it may have been used on just one gun... Or just twenty, or fifty guns. We know that Parker Bros. would simply engrave the ribs of just a small number of Parkers with special or unusual barrels or even just special ribs. Barrels with more standardized features would have been marked with a roll die - but here we have a roll die that may never have been used on more than a small handful of ribs. And so, the question remains, what was the purpose of this particular roll die?





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