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Originally Posted by Arthur Shaffer
I have made the same list, but a complicating issue is that there are instances where we have found higher grade guns with Parker made laminate barrels that are marked on the rib and listed in the serialization book as Damascus guns. I believe that Parker at the time was very proud of the barrels and often used them interchangeably with normal Damascus when building guns. I think there were more barrels produced than just the guns ordered and marked Laminate.
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Art, on all of the guns that received Parker-made Laminated Steel barrel they were marked as such on the top rib but the legend on the top rib gave no indication that the barrel tubes were made in-house. The identification mark that indicated such was the P with the ‘broken foot’ stamped on the forward area of the right barrel flat where the steel type is normally found.
Parker Bros. knew what kind of barrel steel they were putting on any particular gun - no mistake there.
The confusion stems from the person or persons recording the features of the guns.
We often see in our research letters that these guns that received Parker-made Laminated Steel barrels that they were recorded as “Damascus” and this (to us) is wrong… but unfortunately, we can’t change history.
And Chuck includes in his letters exactly what the factory recorded in the stock books and order books.
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