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Congrats on a great find, looking forward to pictures.
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08-22-2020, 11:46 AM
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The previous Browning Arms Company historian, now deceased , was a fine fellow and a Parker collector. From Ogden , he was a descendent of Mormon pioneers and was aware that John Moses Browning was likewise a Parker admirer .
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08-22-2020, 09:36 PM
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I sure hope you didn’t pay real actual money for it. You could take a picture of the cash and send the picture as payment for a non-existent gun.
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08-26-2020, 12:00 PM
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I get it Edgar, having spoken with Chuck a number of times relating to similar weird oddities in the records or lack thereof. I had spoken previously with Mark Conrad as well on similar issues prior to Chuck’s taking on the role of Research Chairman.
A good research chairman is an invaluable asset to our various collector organizations. .
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08-26-2020, 05:30 PM
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As I have posted numerous times in the past, in these situations one gets down to interpreting "forensic calligraphy." IMO I think Chuck is particularly good at it.
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08-26-2020, 05:45 PM
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You can see the entry for 99686 and 99687. I guess they didn't realize someone 120+ years later would try to read their writing
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Indeed, Chuck is the best we have! .
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This thread has begun to include thoughts from several other recent threads.
I mailed a wooden shipping crate to the seller, with what a reasonable person would have considered detailed instructions for packing. Nonetheless, the gun arrived in two days, via USPS Priority, with a chipped butt plate, and some minor, but noticeable chips in the toe, behind the chipped butt plate. Very disappointing when one considers the gun had survived in original shape for 120 years. The letter reveals, what I had initially thought may have been the first V grade 28 ga. with 24" barrels, turns out to be the Second. As the letter states, the order from H & D Folsom requested Two Identical guns, and my new gun was the second of a consecutive pair. This fact alone is enough to negate any disappointment of it not being the first. Making it even more noteworthy, reading all the tables and grade data, these two guns may have actually been the first two 24" 28ga., Period. The letter states that Folsom requested the gun weigh 5 and three quarter pounds, so I commend Mr. King for getting it within a half ounce. There is only the Kf mark and rough barrel weight of 211 stamped on the right barrel flat. The barrels have been reblued in an acceptable finish, and the wood has been freshened, including pointing up the checkering. All things aside, I would still have been excited to have found this spritely little gem. OK, Truth is my, my charter boat captain, hunter fisher diver daughter found it. She can text me a 4am, ANY TIME SHE WANTS. |
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