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They were virtually all color case hardened and if you pull yours off it will likely still show colors underneath. The thin colors on the outside wear easily over time from handling but what is protected underneath will show a little color. It is a distinctive Parker feature and although a little unnecessary, they add a nice touch. While other manufacturers of the time used other materials like ebony and horn for forend tips, anson push rods and similar designs excluded, Parker kept using their distinctive metal tip. The Trojan model did away with it altogether, likely to lower the cost as much as possible.
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11-28-2018, 02:38 PM | #4 | ||||||
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The classic term for this part is "finial." At least for British and European guns.
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The forend tips on all grades (except trojan since they had no tip) of Parker gun are case colored, along with the rest of the metal on the forend.
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11-28-2018, 03:10 PM | #6 | |||||||
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11-28-2018, 04:32 PM | #7 | |||||||
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V grade guns had no schnabel on it, higher grades did. Until the mid to late 20's when they eliminated the schnabel on the higher grades as well.
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11-28-2018, 06:00 PM | #8 | ||||||
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Some are true works of art. Click the link.
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...ight=show+tips
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I’ve long known of a “schnabel” forend in reference to the shape of the wood but never saw or heard the word schnabel in reference to the forend tip. Would you kindly define ‘schnabel’ in this context? It is a German word meaning ‘beak’ or ‘mouth’. .
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11-28-2018, 03:07 PM | #10 | ||||||
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the part is usually referred to as the forend "tip" or "Banjo Tip"(from the shape of it). However, actual Parker factory language defined the whole forend as the "tip". So, I do not know what they referred to the metal banjo as.
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