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Unread 05-15-2021, 11:29 AM   #1
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Parker could have made it easier for us 120 years later

Fall 1898 Sears catalog the PH has "Fine twist"



Catalog No. 112 1902 the PH now has "fine English twist"
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re: sources for the "rough forged tubes" used by every U.S. double gun maker

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...Ve9ur3mCo/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/pub...eFell8GsAWd-KI

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...YvzD18i3c/edit
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This doesn't help either
Clearly Damascus Twist and labeled "Twist"
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Catalog No. 112 1902 the PH now has "fine English twist"
And could this be the same stuff just four years later?... pretty likely but under a different name.




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Parker 1874 Price List



Simmons Hdw. 1878. Plain Steel replaced with Plain Twist and the Grade 6 is added with "Finest Damascus"

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