The fact that the owner of Vintage Firearms is very thorough in his descriptions of the guns he sells doesn’t confirm he ever had factory records on a particular serial number. The information he provided in describing 188911 is relatively common knowledge to disciples of Parker Brothers guns and who have copies of The Parker Story and a couple of EDM’s books.
You can double check with Chuck Bishop but if our website says there are no surviving factory records upon which to base a research letter, you can bank on Chuck coming up with a big goose egg.
PS - It sounds like a wonderful Parker.
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