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Unread 10-19-2011, 08:23 AM   #1
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While it may have begun life as a Parker Trojan, at some stage in the hands of it's latest smith, it seems to me that it becomes more the smith, and less the Parker. When a guy takes a small block Chevy V8, and puts it in his '32 Ford pickup, the truck doesn't become a Chevy. Kinda reminds me of the guy who claims to have his grandfathers axe, even though it's had 5 new handles and 4 new heads.
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Unread 10-19-2011, 08:29 AM   #2
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Someone buy this thing so we can show it to the Del Gregos. Babe will deny that he has ever seen it, even though the metal may have been done in his shop. I would bid a reasonable amount for the gun but for the fact that the inletting needs about a thousand dollars worth of work to get right. Check out the trigger guard and the inside of the forend. Maybe it's a trick of the camera, but I don't think so.
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Kinda reminds me of the guy who claims to have his grandfathers axe, even though it's had 5 new handles and 4 new heads.

In fact, I happen to own the very same hatchet that young George Washington used to chop down his father's cherry tree with... it is as good as new with about the same scenario...
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In fact, I happen to own the very same hatchet that young George Washington used to chop down his father's cherry tree with... it is as good as new with about the same scenario...
Then I'm gonna get after the guy that sold me mine, as I was assured it was George's. Oh, wait, it says LL Bean on it.

Bill that was Larry Higgins, yes? He used to hang around with Pete Harvey years ago.
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