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Scott, thank you for reminding me that rib matting is cut, not pressed. The inscription on solid ribs is pressed. By the way, yesterday was test fire day for the GHE Damascus vent rib gun. What a gun! Jared and Tom had shown me the gun a couple of times last year, but I couldn't pull the trigger until it went to auction. The gun has the characteristic factory overbore to .740, and chokes of .040 and .044.
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03-02-2016, 10:02 AM
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Edgar and I both forgot that the rib matting is cut and not pressed. The rib on the GHE in question is apparently either original to the gun or installed very early in vent rib manufacture. I say this because the breech end of the rib is unlike any Parker vent rib I have seen. Not just unusual because it is installed on a curved breech receiver, which is fairly common, but the rib itself has a completely different treatment of stippling and engraving. I wish I had Kevin's very early BHE vent rib gun to compare.
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03-02-2016, 10:43 AM
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The stippling without the 'wedge' on the ramp is something I have seen on a few Parker vent rib guns.
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03-02-2016, 12:20 PM
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Here a few pictures of my Vent Rib Guns. The posts are not easily visible. there are two posts on my 30" GHE barrel set that you can find if the light is right, other than that you can not see them. In the last few pictures you can se the shadow of the post reflecting on the barrel, but you can not find it on the rib.
These pictures are from my VHE Trap gun, and my GHE Trap/Skeet Factory two barrel set.                
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03-02-2016, 12:27 PM
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The legends definitely look to have been engraved on both guns... I can't say the same for the matting, but they too, may have been engraved.
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03-02-2016, 12:35 PM
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Are the wavy lines 'matting'? If so, I don't believe it is engraved. First, you can see some 'ghost' lines where the dies didn't quite line up. No one would engrave like that. Second, it would drive any human crazy to engrave that many squiggly lines...especially on a lower grade gun.
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03-02-2016, 01:10 PM
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I think all wavy lines on all Parkers were cut by the machine not "Pressed" in.
If you read the description on how the rib matting machine works it states that it cuts the lines. They could roll stamp the parker name on the solid or concave rib guns, however with no support on the Vent Rib guns they had to hand engrave it. It also states in the machine description that the name was rolled onto the rib before the matting was cut and there is an adjustment on the machine to stop the lines from cutting the rolled on name. It looks like they stopped engraving on the later guns to cut costs. |
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03-02-2016, 05:41 PM
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The curved rib extension tells me the gun went back and had the rib added at a later date.
All the guns that I have seen with a Vent Rib that factory letter have a flat rib extension. |
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