Parker Production Question

[TroutSetter]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

To be honest, when you find a gun at a show, the frame size is right in front of you. You don't need research material to identify what you are looking at.

Yes, agreed. I wouldn't dare argue the obvious. But, I would expand on your statement to say that if someone is looking for or thinks they may own something rare, it would be interesting to know how many may or may not exist. Someone made the statement to me that "there can't be many Grade 2 16s on a 0 frame". Well, I wonder what that number might be...

I started this thread because I'm a numbers guy and those sort of statistics intrigue me. I was hoping they might exist somewhere.

[Pa SxS]

You must remember that the statistics found in The Parker Story were just estimates extrapolated from the surviving order and stock books. I find it strange when people quote only x amount of guns were made in a certain configuration. They don't know what the total amount is, nobody does.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Chuck Bishop

You must remember that the statistics found in The Parker Story were just estimates extrapolated from the surviving order and stock books. I find it strange when people quote only x amount of guns were made in a certain configuration. They don't know what the total amount is, nobody does.

Hence, the qualifier when claiming a specific number according to TPS would be X "known".





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[Bill Mullins]

In regards to the statistics in THE PARKER STORY the numbers given reflect the actual information taken from the Stock and Order Books that were available to
us. A mathematical formula was derived by Charlie Price (a computer engineer)
to include grades, gauges, etc. from the missing books. Information/statistics
in the Books immediately before and after missing records were taken into account to derive the final count. While that is not an exact science it projected
a number as close to reality as possible. Having said all this I recall a statement
made by the late Jack Puglisi: " In the final analysis the gun has to speak for
itself."