[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

I believe you're only disagreeing with me because you're an ornery cuss who just likes to wind me up.

Yeah, it is kinda fun...

It was entirely speculative that it was used on one gun, just as it is equally speculative it was used on two, ten or fifty. Until someone produces one, I think it's much closer to none than 50.

I agree with that. (for once.)

During the absence of more important things, I examined the above two "Brothers" guns and despite being nearly 90,000 guns apart, I would feel confident in saying both ribs were impressed by the very same roll die. Austin and John's guns fall in between my two. I am sure they rolled up a mess of ribs at once, but can't guess whether the the Brothers were separated from the Bros.

And up until this time we have only seen examples in VH or VHE with Vulcan Steel barrels.

Does anyone have a guess as to the life of the Meriden roll dies, i.e. how many ribs could be impressed before it was determined to be worn out (or as we have occasionally seen, broken)?

I don't know the answer to that but I'll speculate 'a long, long time. There are a great number of Parkers that have a barrel stamp weight of 4 lbs., and some ounces. The 4 has a chipped off diagonal line where the vertical and horizontal lines would be connected but instead it looks a bit like a strange "German Cross." I'm sure Parker Bros. knew about the chipped die that left that imperfect 4 but they chose, for whatever reason, not to replace it for the longest time.

But I do like crankin' you up





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