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Originally Posted by Forrest Grilley View Post
At the risk of taking this thread off course. I noticed in the letter it was stated that the original barrels were "RE-BROWNED". Was it common for the Parker factory to describe their blackening/blueing procedure as "browning"?
that is the phrase used in the letter for my DH when it went back to Parker in 1894. I expect it was only used when referring to damascus
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