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03-16-2024, 03:29 PM | #13 | ||||||
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See the thread started by "Gunner" on 10-13-2016 on this topic for further info and speculation.
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03-16-2024, 04:41 PM | #14 | ||||||
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I'd have to agree with Dave that it's a stretch to speculate that K is an inspector's mark, Charles King or otherwise. If a superintendent was also serving as an inspector, wouldn't his mark also appear on all grades higher than V grade, and wouldn't he also inspect guns with damascus barrels? I also think it's a stretch to suggest 'f' represented 'finished' as I would presume it wouldn't be inspected until it was finished, making it redundant. If W.K., and J.G., then, why not C.K.?
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03-16-2024, 05:05 PM | #15 | |||||||
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03-16-2024, 05:22 PM | #16 | ||||||
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"Possibly valid Edgar, so what is the solution according to your line of thinking?"
Nothing unkind taken. Solution? Get out the Ouija board. None of us were there, and in the absence of some heretofore unknown document, it comes down to what you want to believe. |
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03-16-2024, 06:24 PM | #17 | ||||||
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We have argued this many times in the past.
https://parkerguns.org/forums/showth...rel+steel+mark My arguments are -- 1. That we only see the Kf on barrels marked on the rib Vulcan Steel and the K on barrels marked on the rib Titanic Steel or Acme Steel. 2. The marks are in the same general area where the D, L and T of composite barrels were found. 3. The K and Kf are not found on composite barrels. 4. The K and Kf marks are not seen on barrels with the V, P, P.S., T or A, usually in a circle, barrel steel marks. |
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