More help need interpreting Parker records.

[Bindlestiff]

Just a thought on how that could happen. If the order was taken and the process to make it was just starting, the work tag that travels with the work in progress may have simply been changed without corresponding changes made in "the book"?

Years ago I worked in a forge shop and thinks like that took place on parts moving through the shop.

[Bill Murphy]

It was probably easier to give the customer a Grade 2 than to build a Grade 1. Guns do not always correspond with the order book entry when they are delivered. The stock book is the final configuration of a Parker.

[Pa SxS]

I just went through the stock book that Ray's gun is in. I looked for Lam barrels and the one's I saw were all Lam1's. The Parker story however does list 6 guns in top action grade 2 that had Laminated barrels. 210 in lifter actions and 6 in top action guns. Also of note, TPS lists 11 grade 0 hammer guns as having Dam0 barrels and 260 grade 1 hammer guns with Dam1 barrels. I guess it's not true that Damascus was only used on grade 2 and above.