1909 Parker VH Info Needed (Tiger Striped Case)

[Bruce Day]

It could be done.

90,000 Parkers recase colored. 60 years at 200 work days per year= 12,000 total work days. 90,000 Parkers divided by 12,000 work days = 7.5 Parkers per work day, disassembled, striped out, buffed, case colored, refitted, reassembled, and returned . That time would include driving back and forth to the industrial shop in Herkimer that did job work case hardening for Del Grego.

What this tells us is that Parker and Remington were very inefficient, because they did 240,000 over 70 years, but their workforce was about 6-7 men in the finishing and final fitting/ case color department, and they only produced 240,000 guns , or 17 per work day with many times the labor force of the single man Del Grego shop.

[Bill Murphy]

Save your shipping money, sir. This gun has never been to the Del Grego shop. There are no factory finished or Del Grego refinished Parkers that look like yours. If knowledge is power, I have shared my power with you, as well as financial advice. Not many #2 frame 26" V Grades out there. Is yours one of them? To answer another of your questions, the order book will not mention the frame size. It is marked on the gun and can be confirmed with a machinist's scale measuring the firing pin separation. By the way, Del Grego does not have any "Parker tanks". No one has ever done any cyanide case coloring in Del Grego's 400 square foot shop. Finally, your gun has never seen the inside of a "quality shop" as you describe it. You have a nice gun, but not because of the work of any gunsmith who has ever touched it.