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Originally Posted by Rick Losey
they show up here fairly often
and i do wish people would stop calling them "knock offs" since the English Parker family started making guns a hundred years before the Parker Bros. started -
the ones we mostly see are middle grade Birmingham proofed guns - there are Belgium clunkers - but since they usually say Parker not Parker Brothers, i bet they are meant to steal a share of the inexpensive British export market, otherwise that class of Belgium makers would have added brothers to the name to confuse - just like they did with the variations of the Westley Richards name
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Were the belgium guns any good for just say field use ?
Ive been reading about Joseph Manton recently and was finding conflicting information regarding the Belgium guns with the Manton name on them .
I have never seen the English Parkers you speak of when I said knock offs I was referring to all the Belgium guns that use similar names to capitalize on the likeness of the well known names .
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