The issue is- can one use the W.K. inspection stamp to reliably date a Parker barrel without other factory records? The answer appears to be no, IMHO.
Walter King worked for Parker a long time. It would not surprise me that Walter King inspected re-barrel jobs that came in as these were one off jobs done by the repair department not in batch new gun production even when he was Superintendent. His father before him was involved in every aspect of the factory. He had a good teacher.
But as Bruce says, "I wasn't there." and no one else alive was either...
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