I will also add that yes, tubes were imported for a lot of guns. Nearly all damascus tubes were imported as well as early high quality fluid steel. The TUBES were imported. Not assembled barrels. If they were marked, it would have been the TUBES. Ie: whitworth tubes had the whitworth markings on them. And after assembled, sometimes they remained and sometimes they didnt, depending on the amount of striking and polishing done to the barrel set. Parker assembled the barrel set in house meaning that the breech end, lugs and everything were put together and machined in the factory. There would be no markings left from importation left in that area. And as Edgar stated, that area of the barrels would never be stamped with anything to begin with.
And, in the time period that these barrels were made, the tubes were being completely made in house with the starting steel blanks coming from domestic sources in the NE USA.
No, I am not 2 years old. And ego has nothing to do with it. When I see something ridiculous stated, I call them like I see them. It reminds me of a recent example of someone claiming to see an engravers signature in some edge scratching of some scroll. It was also a ridiculous claim. I called him on it. He requested to whole thread be removed. An over-reaction, yes. I only assume it is because he knows his claims were incorrect.
I am done with this bickering over nothing.
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