Bill - The maker of the fake Parker brass shells obviously wants to cash in on something that has the attention of a lot of people - The Parker Gun. When Eugene V. Connett's Derrydale Press books got out of sight price-wise in the 80's, a guy in Lyon (where the hell is Lyon?) Mississippi brought out a series of reprints of the most demand books and sold a ton of them. Then Winchester brought the rights to and produced the "Parker" Reproduction and look at what has happened to them in price. There's a product for every market and a market for every product, regardless of the price demanded.
It's like the ball field - if you build it, they will come (with money).
OH - I bought the Track of The Wolf catalog for the pleasure of reading through it and learning something new about some of the old guns, their parts and construction. I have a video here of a gunsmith building a flintlock rifle as it would have been made in 1750, by hand. I mean, entirely by hand from the barrels, wood, iron works, brass furniture, springs, everything. On completion, it sold for $12. The video tape was made at Williamsburg, VA, where I bought it about 12 years ago.
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