Parker Made Barrels

[Drew Hause]

THANK YOU MARK. Those are perfect, and the barrels are indeed Laminated Steel. I'll leave the 6 7 to the Parker experts, which I am most certainly not.
I'll get those pics added here http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfg2hmx7_1742r4n6vcz

[Roundsworth]

No worries, eh! I am glad to be able to contribute to 'the cause'. From charts in TPS, I am under the impression that 'Laminated Steel' barrels are sort of uncommon. If mine are Parker made barrels, would that make them a bit more scarce?

[Drew Hause]

Mark: Austin and the experts are all probably at The Vintagers, so I could probably get away with saying about anything until they return

This is a pic of Austin's Laminated barrels, which may be Parker made, and are quite crude (with poorly matched tube segments) compared to quality British laminated steel barrels of the same time period



The forward section of the left barrel clearly shows they were 3 Iron with the weld lines, and another weld line obvious between the breech and forward tubes which have different patterns