Research Letters

[Jay Oliver]

An interesting side note somewhat related to this topic, I had just bought Parker Serial# 1310, which shows up as having a research letter available. I almost didn't even check as the serialization book starts at # 1444.

There has to be a lot of neat finds/surprises still out there...

[Pa SxS]

Easy question to answer. There are a total of 6,064 letters in our archived file. The archiving started in April 2004. I'm not sure if Ron Kirby did letters from the beginning until 1/1/05 but after 1/1/05, Mark Conrad did the letters until I took over 5/10/12. Mark did approximately 3082 letters and I've done approximately 2982. Finding a letter previously done doesn't happen very often, probably <5%. I average +- 30 letters per month. This month will be about 40 letters.

Jay, your gun is listed because of a return for work. No original info on such an early gun exists.