Parker Print Block

[10ga Hammer]

I have one, its a Belgium Parker hammer gun.
Double click to enlarge and see detail.
Still looking for an ad where it was used.

[Harry Sanders]

Off topic sort of. But what about roll marking dies. Does anyone have any of those. Certainly in the later production days they must have moved away from engraving.

[Dean Romig]

Roll dies were used on the lock plates of hammer guns on the very lower grades for a relatively short term.





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[B. Dudley]

And roll dies were pretty much always used for the makers marks on the ribs. Except for some cases where they were hand engraved.

I believe Turnbull has a few of the original roll dies for the ribs.

[Harry Sanders]

I thought ribs were rolled for at least part of the time. I think there an old PP article maybe by Austin?

[Dean Romig]

As Parker Bros phased into roll dies for the ribs, hand-engraved rib legends were mostly phased out, with exceptions.
There is a very informative section on rib markings in The Parker Story and there has been at least one In-depth article on the subject in Parker Pages. These two resources will tell us everything there is to know on the subject.






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[Bindlestiff]

This is all I could find on "rib" search of our index, maybe that is what is being refered to.

1996 articles:

Parker Bros. Barrel Steel & Rib Markings by Oscar Graddy

Rib Marks - Update by Ron Kirby