What Dean does not understand about page 331 is that the stock books for the entire page are missing. We don't have stock book information for any gun from serial number 103084 to 111443, but we have plenty of order book information for letters. The reason that there is information on the high grade, 8 and 28 gauge guns on page 331 is that the authors searched the order books for high grade guns, 28 gauge and 8 gauge guns for the Appendices. Yes, there are low grade guns recorded in those order books, but the authors did not record them. The PGCA records include all those low grade guns in their available data. There are thousands of guns not listed in the Serialization Book that are available for PGCA letters as Mark explains. As Mr. Zachow tried to explain, Parker Brothers recorded all guns, all grades. What PGCA members must remember is that the SB only includes guns from available stock books and a few hundred high grades and 8 and 28 gauge guns. There are thousands of guns available for research by the PGCA researcher that do not appear in the sainted Serialization Book. Another thing to remember is that the order books ended in 1919 and any later gun will not have purchaser information except in rare instances. By the way, just about everything Mr. McCormack said was right and virtually everything Mr. Fishtail said was wrong. No one who knows anything about the Parker records has ever said that low grade guns were not posted in the records. Mr. Fishtail is mistaken about what he thinks he has read on the forum.
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