It’s unfortunate but it is a fact that there isn’t nearly (not even close) the factual documentation on Parker Reproduction production as we have at our disposal of original Parker Brothers guns. There are so many questions and the answers to these we will never know. There is scant little (known) documentation on the Repros that in most cases we can only make educated guesses.
I’m in the camp that believes the “P” guns were personally earmarked either to be used as gifts or specially ordered and deeply discounted by Jack Skeuse for good friends and relatives… or maybe for Presentation to those folks.
How could there have been “prototype” guns numbering into the hundreds? Wouldn’t, by the mere definition of the word, such “prototypes” be limited to just a handful of examples??
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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