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10-18-2016, 08:41 PM | #14 | ||||||
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Well, I thought it was just a poor stamping but it does have an arc above and below. See picture
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10-18-2016, 08:43 PM | #15 | ||||||
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Yes Gary, that is the stamp for Twist Steel - a crescent above and a crescent below the T.
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10-18-2016, 09:02 PM | #16 | ||||||
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Here is a list of many of my hammerless guns in ascending serial number order:...
57043 D (Damascus) J above 5 lb., 11oz 67669 D (") C above 3 lbs., 14oz 67772 4 above D (") C above 4 lbs., 1oz 73264 A6 above D (") 3 lbs., 7oz Left + and Right + 76084 4 above D (") C above 3 lbs., 5oz A 90739 K (no barrel steel stamp) 4 lbs., 3oz 3 (grade) Left + and Right + 142193 T in the circle 3 lbs., 6oz 3 (") W.K. in oval 147673 4 above D (") C above 3 lbs., 2oz 3 (") W.K. in oval & Yankees stamp(?) 149020 4 above D (") C above 3 lbs. 3 (") 163160 T in the circle 3 lbs., 4oz 3 (") J.G. in circle & Yankees stamp(?) 228145 HT over A, V in the circle, 2 lbs., 15oz, Overload Proved Parker Bros So, only 90739, an 1899 gun, meets the criteria we are looking for, and it appears at probably the beginning of the Kf stamp in lieu of the steel type stamp 'era'. I would surmise that such stamps would certainly have ended in 1910 (or before) as that is when Charles A. King stepped down from his position of Gun Works Superintendent and his son Walter King took the position. Can anyone supply printed documentation of this having been a standard practice - that of the elimination of the barrel steel type formerly stamped on the forward part of the right barrel flat and having been replaced by C.A.K.'s 'finished' (f) inspection stamp? .
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11-27-2020, 08:52 PM | #17 | ||||||
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123622 1904 has the kf and barrel weight no other markings on the flats but on barrels says Vulcan Steel.
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11-27-2020, 10:34 PM | #18 | ||||||
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I've been studying on this for a while now.
I have recorded Vulcan Steel barrels with the Kf from 103266 to 133683. 135013 is the lowest V in a circle I've recorded. I've recorded barrels with the Titanic Steel and Acme Steel rib legend and the K in the barrel steel location on the flat from 105974 to 146730. Lowest T in circle 151999. |
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11-27-2020, 11:44 PM | #19 | ||||||
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ser# 100525 Kf plus barrel wt and Vulcan steel on rib.
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11-28-2020, 09:36 AM | #20 | ||||||
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VH 12 ga
142422 (1907) WK K V 3 15 1 1/2 No other stamps! |
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