Which damascus? Bernard?

[Drew Hause]

And the winner is...Mark!

Bernard infro here and please note in addition to Bernard I and II (used by Parker) there are also 3 more grades of Bernard listed
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...P3FP0fXb0/edit

To my eye, the barrels are quite similar the lower grade Bernard found on a very few No. 1 L.C. Smiths



This is a Wm. R. Schaefer & Son, Boston with Bernard II



I am not aware of any of the other major U.S. makers using Bernard II, including Remington with the greatest variety of patterns

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

[Drew Hause]

Sorry to make the point again that 1. Bernard pattern barrels were quite popular, esp. in German-Austrian guns, 2. made by about every barrel maker in Liege, and 3. there is essentially no chance that the Parker C Grade Bernard II barrels were made by Leopold Bernard without this mark



Leopold died in 1870 but his company was making barrels until at least 1890, and his trademark possibly purchased and continued thereafter as fluid steel barrels into the early 1900s with the mark exist