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03-22-2016, 07:33 AM | #3 | ||||||
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My insight is that the owner sent you the wrong serial number.
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03-22-2016, 07:36 AM | #4 | ||||||
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Excellent point Bill. It could be a simple transposition.
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03-22-2016, 08:17 AM | #5 | ||||||
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And the other thing, the book is wrong many, many times Jack Puglisi use say to me, the book was great most of the time and a "curse" other times , you could have a gun right as rain (as he use to say) but the book says a gun has 30" barrels but the gun you are looking at has 28" and they have not been cut with the end of rib matting, but now the gun is cursed because the book says so There are many misprints in "The Book". Just food for thought.
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03-22-2016, 08:27 AM | #6 | ||||||
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I had a good one several years ago. The book showed the gun, a 12ga DH with 30" and the gun in front of me had 32", properly serialized and to the frame. I bought it and the letter indicated the following. Gun sent back a year after ownership to have the original barrels cut to 24". A year later, the gun was again sent back to have another set of barrels made in 32". So in this case, the book was right, and what I was looking at was right, you just never know until an actual letter is generated.
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03-22-2016, 09:04 AM | #7 | ||||||
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In this case the Parker story lists all the 28 bore guns Parker made This gun isn't listed there either Again thanks for your help |
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03-22-2016, 10:15 AM | #9 | ||||||
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So what's the S/N????
I'll tell you if the "book" is wrong. Depending on how late the gun is, I would have the stock book or the IBM card, or both. It's also possible that Griffin & Howe will have records. |
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03-22-2016, 10:24 AM | #10 | ||||||
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Chuck - it is a 1930 gun. That explains a couple of things about the records.
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