Robert,
The stock on the auction gun looks well fitted except its not quite perfect(pretty close though) at the top tang. Why do you think it is not the original stock?
Ross
Reb,
Could we wait until the auction closes before I address your question...I don't want to be misconstrued as knocking somebody elses gun as some do for sport and spite right here at this system...the extent of their behavior doesn't simply end when they move on to damage some other threads, it precludes us from speaking the truth when called for.
Everyone is eager to read about Emil Flues, but now it's apparent why Flues gun owners are reluctant to post their gun here...I'm not afraid to post...Craig didn't know any better....but the guys with the Two Thousand Dollar grade sidelocks will only lose if they come forward...
I have Emil's personal gun but if I make that leap and post pictures, it won't be hours until wrecking crew arrives to say it looks like something their dog left behind...I know it ...you know it...and there's nothing we can do about it...
There's are at least 75 Parkers by Emil Flues out there...ask yourself why won't anyone post a photo or two? Some of them are in Canada, and at least 63 are in the US...Emil's closest friend, at the time of his death, sold 63 of his fathers upgraded Parkers to Pachmayr, "as fakes"...Pachmayr resold them letting people assume that he made the upgrades...
Where are they? Why won't they surface? What happened to all the guns Emil made for the Cherry Hill Country Club Members?...What happened to the guns Emil made and upgraded for Canazzi? I'm sure some are lost to understanding...most are in the hands of collectors who are not online...but are there too many in circulation for that to be it...I'm convinced that many simply won't post them here because of the loss in value that will invariably be issued by the pigeons. Wouldn't it great if the Flues story unfolded right here the way Rev, PeteM, Reb and more have done with the Damascus story...We all pay the price for not insisting they stop.
They won't allow the Jerry Swinney notes to be posted either