Parker Made Barrels - Page 3

Roundsworth · 09-23-2010, 10:19 AM

How's this, Drew? What does the '67' indicate? Maybe the last 2 digits of an order?

Drew Hause · 09-23-2010, 10:41 AM

THANK YOU MARK. Those are perfect, and the barrels are indeed Laminated Steel. I'll leave the 6 7 to the Parker experts, which I am most certainly not.
I'll get those pics added here http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfg2hmx7_1742r4n6vcz

Roundsworth · 09-23-2010, 11:06 AM

No worries, eh! I am glad to be able to contribute to 'the cause'. From charts in TPS, I am under the impression that 'Laminated Steel' barrels are sort of uncommon. If mine are Parker made barrels, would that make them a bit more scarce?

Drew Hause · 09-23-2010, 12:39 PM

Mark: Austin and the experts are all probably at The Vintagers, so I could probably get away with saying about anything until they return

This is a pic of Austin's Laminated barrels, which may be Parker made, and are quite crude (with poorly matched tube segments) compared to quality British laminated steel barrels of the same time period

The forward section of the left barrel clearly shows they were 3 Iron with the weld lines, and another weld line obvious between the breech and forward tubes which have different patterns

Parker Bachelder (Brad's Profile) · 09-23-2010, 02:11 PM

The first picture is the cloverleaf proof appearing on the forend lug Diamond P barrels.Top lever Dam. set 1884.
Second is forend lug Diamond P. Top lever Dam. set 1884.
Third another lug stamped top lever Dam. set 1884.
Fourth, right barrel struck diamond P, Lifter Dam. set 1880
Fifth, right barrel double struck diamond P, top lever twist set 1888

Brad

Drew Hause · 09-23-2010, 02:30 PM

Thank you Brad!

Autumn Daze · 09-23-2010, 03:08 PM

We know that Parker experimented in making their own laminated and damascus barrel's in this time period but proved to costly.Also during this period Parker employees were "contractors" and to get paid for their labors they probably had to stamp their work as finished. So that would account for the numerous"inspectors" marks.

Parker Bachelder (Brad's Profile) · 09-23-2010, 07:53 PM

Dave I totally agree with you about the inspectors or acceptance marks. I am sure ther were many more that were removed during striking and final machining. We have restored several sets of barrels both twist and laminated, that do not come close to any other patterns that we have seen.
I believe that Parker produced laminate and twist barrels for a short period of time. These barrels seem to carry partially obilterated numbers, two and three digit, on the tubes ahead of the flats. Given the consistency of the various types of Dam. patterns that Parker used, I tend to think that they never successfully made Dam. Barrels.
We are trying to tie the unknown marks to specific contractors by date, Hopefully we can create a timeline for the barrel contractors. As for rib materials, we can not establish any logical pattern, but we will keep trying.

Brad

Autumn Daze · 09-23-2010, 07:59 PM

Thanks Brad. If we can come up with a timeline for these various inspectors stamp's we might be able to match them with known Parker employees. But I'm sure some will be lost to time. Thanks for all you do.

Roundsworth · 09-23-2010, 08:12 PM

What do you think of this '13'? Is it the size of the bore prior to boring? There is a reference in TPS about that. It is a 12 gauge 'Plain Twist' Lifter, 10250.