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03-14-2015, 03:07 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Thank you so much! I will figure out the photo process (I am not the most computer literate soul alive) and post some pics.
I am just so thrilled to (sort of) have my daddy and grand-daddy's gun back! |
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03-14-2015, 04:50 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Photos of gun
Hi again,
Looking at the closeups, I suspect this is a re-barreling job. The SN on the barrel looks like it was stamped with individual dies over a ground-down area, which would explain the Trojan barrel on the D frame, yes? But that's just a guess from someone who knows nothing about this! Album: http://parkerguns.org/forums/album.php?albumid=607 |
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The Following User Says Thank You to Martha Glisson For Your Post: |
03-18-2015, 12:43 AM | #5 | ||||||
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Hi Martha and Welcome: There are surviving records on your Parker which you, as a member, can send for to Mark Conrad, our historian, and he will send back to you. The cost is $40.00. It does seem that your D Grade was given a set of Trojan barrels at some point. This could, possibly, have been done at the factory since the original set of barrels were most probably Damascus. The letter will tell the story.
Best Regards, George
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03-18-2015, 06:30 AM | #6 | ||||||
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A correction to George's post - Mark Conrad was Research Chairman for about a decade and provided exemplary research letters but he stepped down about two years ago and Chuck Bishop is now our Research Chairman.
The Trojan was introduced in 1912 so it was certainly rebarreled sometime after that date. |
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The Following User Says Thank You to Dean Romig For Your Post: |
03-18-2015, 10:54 AM | #7 | ||||||
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Dean's correct: I first put Chuck's name down and then experienced a lapse of memory and changed it to Mark.....My Bad.....George
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03-18-2015, 11:18 AM | #8 | ||||||
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Welcome Martha! Sounds like you have a good Parker to start your collection.
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03-18-2015, 05:31 PM | #9 | ||||||
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Thanks! Given the price-for-value ratio, we quietly returned the gun to the seller, and will wait around for something else (they said they didn't realize it had been rebarreled. Not Parker people - but then neither were we until we found this site!)
Meantime, we picked up a 1920 VH with (almost) all its original parts for a much more reasonable price - it is 'well used' but handsome, the only alteration is that somebody put a recoil pad on it somewhere along the line. I'll probably appreciate it while shooting it - although I always admired the dog-and-pheasant on the butt of Dad's Parker. |
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03-18-2015, 06:21 PM | #10 | ||||||
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Well there is no reason you have to stop at owning just one....
Congratulations and enjoy! |
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