No, I believe he was a barrel maker prior to being superintendent.
I think I'll check the dates of manufacture of all my guns with W.K. stamped in the barrel flat.
211,XXX W.K.
163,XXX J.G.
90,XXX K.
147,XXX W.K.
I'm stopping here - The vast majority of my Parkers have no recognizable inspector's mark other than Charles A. King, Walter Kink, Jim Geary, and somebody identified as simply P. In other words, thy're blank where we would expect to see an inspector' mark.
But No. 147,XXX does prove that Walter King was inspecting barrels in 1908, two years before he became Superintendent.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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