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The butt plate is an odd place for a makers name. For a flintlock normally the lockmaker's name is on the lockplate and the gunmaker's name is on the top of the barrel if it is there at all.
A name on the butt plate may well be an owner's name -was the Parker family in the area in 1828?
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