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IMO, mullering the borders a la Parker Brothers isn't necessarily correct. Tom Skuese sent several of his Remington era Parkers to Japan to be duplicated. Those guns did not have mullered borders as was done by Parker Brothers. But neither did the checkerers in Japan correctly replicate the borders in the Remington style either.
Here is what Remington borders should look like. Pictures 1, 2, 3, and 4 are Remington style borders while the last two are Parker Bros. mullered borders just for comparison. Personally I like the mullered borders but they're not correct for the Parker Reproductions by Winchester. .
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03-19-2021, 08:46 PM | #4 | ||||||
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I personally do not think that many would care. But I am sure some would.
Personally, I feel that the quality of the checkering on DHE repros is one of their poorest executed features. Anything that can be done to improve it some is not really a bad thing.
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03-19-2021, 08:47 PM | #5 | ||||||
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I can't see how adding mullered borders could possibly add any value in the longterm. In fact, I believe it will prove detrimental to value to those that chose to collect Parker Reproductions. Serious collectors demand originality, adding mullered borders to a Parker Reproduction ain't original.
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03-19-2021, 09:23 PM | #6 | ||||||
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But still, it’s a matter of personal preference.
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03-20-2021, 06:22 AM | #8 | ||||||
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Just because YOU don't understand how something can be considered collectible, doesn't mean they don't exist. There are all kinds of collectors in this big wide world we live in. There are collectors of women's panties found on clotheslines, there are collectors of Japanese swords, there are collectors of Parker Bros. guns and yes, there are collectors of Parker Reproductions -- lot's of them...and likely more in the years and decades yet to come.
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03-20-2021, 06:32 AM | #9 | ||||||
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The men and in women in Meriden and Ilion who created the originals probably never dreamed that in 100 or more years their utilitarian creations, no matter how plain or how ornate, would be prized so highly by collectors, nor did they have the slightest inkling that politicians of the future would like to take them away from the American public.
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You can say that again it's bloody pitiful !
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