Parker case colors

[John Bastiani]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Charlie Price was such an expert. He wrote an article titled Parker Case Colors and it was published in Parker Pages Vol. 22, Issue 1, page 4. The article includes ome excellent color pictures.





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Is there anyway to get a copy of this article?

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by John Bastiani

Is there anyway to get a copy of this article?

Send a PM to James Hall requesting that issue.
He is our keeper of extra issues and overruns of Parker Pages.

There will be a small nominal fee.





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[Mike McKinney]

John,
There are multiple ways to get the article, one would be to PM Jimmy Hall and see if he has an issue he can sell you, another is buy the Parker Pages Archive which is on either thumb drive or CD, in that case send $55 which includes shipping to me, Mike McKinney, 18 Nottingham Road, Maggie Valley, NC 28751, with that you would have all info from Parker Pages through 2019.

[Dean Romig]

Right Mike and that's 25 years of Parker Pages.

Disclaimer: The Parker Pages Digital Archive is only available to Annual and Life PGCA Members.





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[Wilmurt]

Original case color (1887)

[Keavin Nelson]

On a related quest, other than Turnbull (some would debate that) are there others out there that produce colors that replicate the original?

[John Bastiani]

I emailed Mr. Hall yesterday about getting the Volume 22 issue 1 Parker pages and the Spring 2008 issue as well. I had previously emailed him about the Spring 2008 issue and never got a response.

[John Bastiani]

Originally Posted by keavin nelson

On a related quest, other than Turnbull (some would debate that) are there others out there that produce colors that replicate the original?

I wish there was nobody that could replicate Parker colors as it has led to some guns being sold as original cased guns when they are not. I had a buddy who bought what was advertised as an original BHE(80 to 85% case) from a known dealer. When he got ready to sell the gun 30 years later he found that the gun had been recased. It was almost impossible to tell from some originals we looked at. He ended up showing the gun to some guys from the Parker Collectors display at a show a few years ago at OGCA(I believe) and they informed him that the gun had been re-cased. It was a around a 1915 gun from what I remember and had a weep hole which it shouldn't have had for that era. I believe thats how the gentleman determined the gun had been redone. Also: Mr. Turnbull does excellent work and is honest in letting people know if he has redone a gun.

[Reggie B]

Why would a weep hole indicate case colors had been re-done? Or did they think since the barrels had been re-finished the entire gun had likely been? These old guns have for the most part all been worked on to some extent. A lot of them are sold as "originals" but that really depends on how a person defines that word. My advice is don't buy them as investments, buy them because you love them despite what may or may not have been done to them in the last 100 years.

Having said that, I do like to find them as close to "original" as possible.

[Dean Romig]

Reggie - Redone barrels will often cause the whole gun to require very close examination.

Collect them because we love them and admire them yes, but nobody wants to get duped at the time of purchase only to find out years later that they have no hope of ever selling the gun at even close to the purchase price. We're all well aware that the market in these guns has taken a temporary (hopeful) dip but to be taken to the cleaner by an unscrupulous seller is just pretty darn hard to deal with.





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