What is it about the subject gun that several posters to this thread claim this gun has been re-case color hardened?
Really? It's glaringly obvious to anyone who knows Parker Repros and case coloring. This gun has gorgeous cc, whereas the factory cc on PR's, not so much. Dang...
JR
Are you absolutely 100% sure that it was
re-case color hardened?
No one here is arguing the colors on this subject gun aren't gorgeous.
The seller claims this A-1 Special is one of the custom engraved guns, yet it appears to be adorned with the standard engraving pattern of the factory-engraved A-1 Specials. But, for the sake of discussion, let's assume the seller is correct in that it was custom engraved.
Custom Engraved A-1 Specials came into the Middlesex, NJ custom shop for Gournet or possibly others to engrave, one can assume these guns were in-the-white (not to be confused with the Galazan liquidated in-the-white A-1 Specials) and thus were not case colored until after they were custom engraved. If that's the case, this gun may have its original case color finish--and not
re-case color hardened, eh?
I have a Parker Reproduction brochure that features the A-1 Specials and it states within the brochure
"The frame is case hardened using the same methods as original Parkers..." Granted, those words do not say bone charcoal, but we do know that original Parkers utilized the bone charcoal process.
