Parker 12 PHE

[Mark Conrad]

Dave, let me try again on this. The Serialization book says the first Parker steel gun is 192515. This is incorrect. Austin and I found that the Parker steel guns started around 170000. I don't have the records any more so I am going from memory. There are 20000 serial numbers were all the PH grades were listed as PT (Parker Twist) and they were probably Parker Steel. The 60 number is based on the Parker Steel guns starting at 192515. I agree the number of 26 inch guns would be low but you need to add the ones made from 170000 to 192515. I believe Austin had a PH or a PHE that was in the Serialization Book with PT barrels and it actually had Parker Steel barrels. That's how we got interested in this. Mark

[Bill Murphy]

Price and Mullins "extrapolated" their totals, and the serial number range that Mark mentions covers I think it was eight stock books with three thousand guns in each book. Exprapolating P Grades is a lot more difficult than extrapolating other grades.