So, the last record we see on this gun was from 1900. A lot may have happened in the next few decades (during which time Mathewson died of tuberculosis - probably a complication stemming from a gas attack during his service in WW-I) including going back to Parker Bros. as a result of the next owner possibly having damaged the barrels or believing them to be 'unsafe to shoot with modern powder'.
I am convinced the barrels are a factory replacement by one fact alone.... who else but the Parker Bros. factory barrel-makers would have known to stamp a set of Vulcan barrels with the number code for a C-grade, a 4 in the absolute correct location on the barrel flats?!
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