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03-14-2013, 06:36 PM
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Stephen, The HT/A is believed to stand for "Heat Treated/Annealed" Also the "K" is an inspectors mark that I have seen before. This is only conjecture on my part but my thought is this is King's mark. Parker Bros. superintendant. Parker Bros. used many employees as vendors and once they completed work on a gun it was in many cases's stamped with their mank. Hope this helps....
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03-14-2013, 08:57 PM
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The K mark of Superintendant Charles A. King was only used until 1010 (around serial no. 152721) after that his son Walter King was superintendant and his stamp was WK. We can't say for sure if the K on that gun you show can be connected to either King, the father or King, the son. Secondly, both of their stamps were on the flats and not on the lug that we know of.
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03-15-2013, 08:15 AM
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What is special about this gun that it requires an article? Past owner? Unique features?
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03-15-2013, 11:45 AM
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My thanks to all for your insight. I guess we can sum up the HTA and K markings as "unknown" or "unexplainable".
Anyone study barrel weights as in: these are marked 3/13 ("before striking") and now weight 3/5. That seems like a lot of difference especially with the parts added. Any known definitive explanation? The reason for this gun appearing in my column it that it is the most generic Parker I have in my workshop. I have never featured Parker guns in my 20 years writing Fine Gunmaking for Shooting Sportsman. It is an opportunity to introduce basic Parker info, the PGCA (great website!), a few lesser known books and an internal view of the gun to the readership. I hope you aficionados approve when you see the column (July/Aug 2013?) Best, Steve |
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03-15-2013, 11:53 AM
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Steve - we'll be honored to be mentioned and very pleased that you are doing a piece on the Parker Shotgun.
Dean |
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03-15-2013, 12:33 PM
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What is ser. no? Could it be a remington gun ?
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03-15-2013, 03:27 PM
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Ed Morgan
Ed, Glad to see you're up and about. Tom
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03-15-2013, 04:35 PM
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Stephen, Page 583 in "The Parker Story" by Mullins, Price et al shows a copy of DelGrego's notebook that lists the HT/A as a designation for mild steel. The HT/A would certainly equate to a steel that has been heat treated and then annealed. In my experience in the machining industry we have used like markings. Just for the sake of clarity...Hope we have been of help and looking forward to your article.
Ed, Great to see you posting. Get well young man.
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