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Originally Posted by Milton C Starr
Bet you've never seen a English made Parkers 
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Ive seen alot of Belgium guns with knockoff names similar to the famous names of double shotguns . Like W.Richards and such but never seen that with a American name . It looks to say "The Parker" on the side of it . |
they show up here fairly often
and i do wish people would stop calling them "knock offs" since the English Parker family started making guns a hundred years before the Parker Bros. started -
the ones we mostly see are middle grade Birmingham proofed guns - there are Belgium clunkers - but since they usually say Parker not Parker Brothers, i bet they are meant to steal a share of the inexpensive British export market, otherwise that class of Belgium makers would have added brothers to the name to confuse - just like they did with the variations of the Westley Richards name