Barrel Flats:
This Remington era Parker barrel has the circle though no “T” associated with Titanic. The top rib is not stamped at all, a late vent rib gun. I believe Remington incorporated chrome moly but I’m not sure.
Note the barrel codes.
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Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss.
A current under sea picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell he passed the stages of his age and youth entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T.S. Eliot
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