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Unread 07-24-2020, 07:36 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Jerry Parise View Post
Unfortunately, this is not a Parker Bros. shotgun. By the proof marks on the barrel flats it was proofed in Liege Belgium. So, it is a Belgian gun made to fool the unwary buyer of the time into thinking that they were buying a Parker Bros. shotgun. It was a common enough practice at the time.
more likely with the age- they were knock offs of the British Parker shotgun
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