SO HERE IS A WEIRD ONE

[Dean Romig]

D4 Richard, or 4-iron crolle.

It's easier to see on the right barrel - there are three full crolles between the light weld lines but there is a half crolle up against each weld line that combined account for another full crolle, equalling 4.





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[Richard Flanders]

On both guns?

[Keavin Nelson]

Dean, what does "crolle" mean? Possibly french for ?

[Drew Hause]

Crolle - Crull - Crullen - Curlen are Middle English words that appear in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written c. 1386 -
“And his lokkes buth noght so crolle…” and a young Squier with locks as “crulle as they were laid in presse.”

In Danish, krolle; Swedish, krulla; French, s'enrouler; German, rolle
“To form into coils or ringlets. Twist.”

“Crolle” was used in reference to damascus barrels in Liege and England by at least the 1880s.

Reading crolle patterns
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...Ns5L2XVfc/edit

Richard's GHE is D3 - the 'scrolls' are larger and there are 2 'zipper' welds down the middle of the scrolls in between 2 straight ribband edge welds.

[Bill Murphy]

What is this gun's gunbroker item number?

[Randy Roberts]

Bill I saw it on GI although it may be on GB as well.

Guns International #: 101767701

[Reggie B]

It is listed on Guns International.

[Craig Budgeon]

I can think of 4 businesses that may have had access to a Titanic roll stamp. The alterations I believe were carried out before Peter Johnson's book. How many laymen would have known that gun was a fake before 1960?

[Bill Murphy]

One would not need to read Johnson's book to recognize that rendering of "Titanic" as an alteration of the factory marking. There was a great wealth of Parker knowledge in the years before Johnson's book was published.

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

One would not need to read Johnson's book to recognize that rendering of "Titanic" as an alteration of the factory marking. There was a great wealth of Parker knowledge in the years before Johnson's book was published.

So how does someone restamp TITANIC over DAMASCUS that has been removed, yet one can still see the Damascus pattern in the rib below the roll stamp with no evidence of filing/grinding and welding up? Isn't it just possible that it was a rare mistake?