Further, there would be nothing in a PGCA Research letter referencing the gun having gone to Remington for service. I submit that we have no (or scant few) records of that kind of information.
There is some confusion between those stamps being a + or an x. In fact they might be either. There are a number of stamps on Parker guns that we do not know the meaning of, other than they may be inspection stamps or stamps identifying a certain worker or contractor. There is speculation that a + on the barrel flats near the breech may be an indicator that a barrel was bored oversize and this may be true but there is no actual record in support of that theory. There is a section in The Parker Story beginning on page 569 dedicated to markings on Parkers and the chapter is very informative. See the illustration at the top of page 573 for the + at the breech of each tube. It could be an x but that would toss out the idea that it might indicate the tube being overbored.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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