I have a story to offer to this conversation. It is a tragedy rather than a comedy. The fellow who offered the fake Purdey that I mentioned in the second post, a friend, also mentioned that the owner of the guns he had on consignment had a long history of paying big prices for bad guns, but my friend could never break him of his bad habit. The conclusion of my story is that my friend also showed me a "bad" Parker from this same consignor. As I understand it, the gun was sold to an experienced collector who displays the gun as a rare original high grade small bore gun.
