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Originally Posted by Craig Budgeon
There seems to be a discrepancy of what is original to Parker Bros./ Parker guns. Since the youngest Parker is nearly 80 years old and a rather complex mechanical device you would think that some maintenance or repair would be required over that 79+years. Judgement varies and I doubt there are truly very few Parkers which are as originally manufactured.
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Agreed, however, there do exist some completely original, unfired, benchmark Parkers in a few collections. We are very fortunate that such guns do exist - otherwise we wouldn’t know how they looked when they were factory fresh.
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