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I hope the photos are attached. Thanks for your help,
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Being new to this, Im not sure how to post photos.
The number on the Barrel Lug, Trigger guard, and the Forend arm is 17680 The number on the water table is 19445 Thanks, Bill |
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Hopefully this worked.
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07-07-2014, 04:22 PM | #6 | ||||||
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If the number on the water table differs from the rest of the gun, then it is a non-matching gun. It is odd that all of those other numbers match and not the frame. But... Who knows.
At the southern this year, I was looking at a gun with Mr. Hoover that he owned and it appeared to have actually been re-framed. It was a super early serial number, but had all sorts of later features to the frame and other parts. The frame was numbered to the earlier barrels, but with later stamps. Kind of hard to explain, but trust me, it was interesting. If you order a letter, Your gun COULD show some sort of factory return that may shed some light on it. But likely it is an after the fact creation made up of two different guns.
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Again, Thanks for your help...Bill
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Just as interesting is that Parker says that both numbers were manufactured in 1880 and there is no "order number" on the barrel flat. .
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The barrel flat order numbers were being phased out by this time. The numbers are less than 2,000 apart. And Parker was making that or more each year of production.
The last 17,000 series gun I owned had no order number on it. Also, guns made for inventory likely did not have order numbers stamped on them. Just my thought. This gun being an 0 grade could have been a gun made for inventory.
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Some early lifters with the "No radius frame" were prone to cracking and were rebuilt at the factory with the new radius frame design. I would think that Parker would have serial numbered the new frame to the original barrels but maybe this is not the case.
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