It's time to play "Repro Detective"!

[Wild Skies]

You see what I see? What's odd here? Identify the oddity and get yourself an attaboy. I can't say that I've ever seen another one like it before, have you?

[Dean Romig]

"Made In Japan" in that location on the barrel.





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[Wild Skies]

Good job Dean, that was quick! You've earned your way to an attaboy!

Have you or anyone else ever seen it on a splinter forend in that location before?

[MD*GSP]

[Wild Skies]

Same gun Scot. You knew that though, you little detective.

[MD*GSP]

I'm still intrigued by that gun..true prototype or embellished?

I love the depiction of the pointer..

[Wild Skies]

Very observant Scot, you also are awarded an attaboy! Congrats!

Just like the pointer varies from the pointers on the standard run of DHE Repros, so too, does the Setter and pheasants. Another seldom encountered stamping on the barrel of this gun is the 70mm chamber stamping, we discussed this stamp previously and it was thought to have been applied on only the very first run of Repros. In the listing of this particular gun it states that it's out of the Skeuse collection.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Greg Baehman

Just like the pointer varies from the pointers on the standard run of DHE Repros, so too, does the Setter and pheasants. In the listing of this particular gun it states that it's out of the Skeuse collection.

Absolutely correct, it is a different variation of Robert Runge's usually observed dogs and pheasants on DHE Repro's. We must keep in mind however that Tom Skeuse sent several of his very best Remington Parkers to the Olin Kodensha factory in Japan. Why the other engraving style was chosen for the later DHE Repro's over the one pictured in this thread is anybody's guess, but I suspect Mr. Skeuse himself had a hand in the decision.

Correction made - it was Tom Skeuse, not Jack as I had originally (and erroneously) stated. My thanks to Greg for politely and discreetly pointing out my error.


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[Wild Skies]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

. . . Snip . . .Why the other engraving style was chosen for the later DHE Repro's over the one pictured in this thread is anybody's guess, but I suspect Mr. Skeuse himself had a hand in the decision. . . . Snip . . .

It more than likely was Tom Skeuse, but whomever made the decision, I, for one, am more than pleased as the game scenes depicted are engraved in greater detail, particularly the pheasants.

[Dean Romig]

I have not seen a Repro with "Made In Japan" in that location before.

That pointer is an exact copy of Robert Runge's engraving when he worked for Remington as chief engraver on the Parker project.





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