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imported thru Chicago, ill. who made those?
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Last edited by skeettx; 01/13/18 07:25 PM.
USAF RET 1971-95 ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](http://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/57865_80x60.jpg)
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pretty amazing how busy zoli was exporting guns in the 60-70s.
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My "Buxton's Guide to Foreign Firearms" from the 60's shows 9 pages of various Atlas models. They also offered semi-finished Parker and LC Smith barrels.
I never really gave those pages more than a quick glance. I always thought of them as bottom end Spanish guns as well. But those pages show some pretty fancy stuff.
Last edited by L. Brown; 01/14/18 09:56 AM.
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Steve Tasitritsis 'ATLAS ARMS', 2704 N Central, Chicago and (later) 7952 Waukegan Rd. Niles, Illinois offered replacement barrels for Smith and Parker guns in the 50s and 60s using tubes made by E.S.C. Vickers (England) and fit and finished by Armaf in Belgium http://www.littlegun.be/arme%20belge/artisans%20identifies%20a/a%20armaf%20fr.htm Parker barrels with a 1954 lettre annale Semi-finished barrels as Bro. Larry mentioned, in all gauges  Looks like Atlas had an in-house gunsmithing dept.
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I have a set of #1 frame 12 gauge Atlas / Parker barrels. They are of good quality but the rib matting is not like a Parker. The fit and finish is very good.
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The barrel Drew pictured are a set I own and they are not the same as the Vickers barrels that Atlas sold. Atlas also offered barrels fitted, I think they were sourced or fitted in Belgium. The barrel pictured is much higher quality than the Vickers barrels, I have seen several of the Vickers and they are pretty crude.
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