I have only been collecting Parkers for a few short years and can't really comment on how people who collect Parkers define a gun to be unfired. Although- I have collected Winchesters for over 40 years and if a gun has been proofmarked then its been fired. So anytime someone list a Winchester as having not been fired then just asked if its got proofmarks(W-P). I did own one gun that was unfired that came out of the Winchester display room in New Haven and sent to the Cody Museum. The gun was not proofed-no serial number and had a metal tag with a number that was listed in the Winchester Reference collection. The gun was a model 1904 that was in new condition. I was skeptical about buying the gun but after I sent the numbers to my buddy Herb Houze who was the curator at the Cody museum and wrote the book on the reference guns - he convinced me that this was a great gun to put in my collection. He also said that Winchester never proofmarked the gun because it was for display only.
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