My take on it is that Wilber Parker had this returned A1-Special to sell and the only real link to the Czar is his letter to the eventual purchaser where he said they made it for the Czar, but he was also trying to sell the Gentleman a 20-gauge A1-Special for his wife in that letter!
The "Czar's" Parker has no inscription and no special embellishment. The Marlin pump gun made a few years earlier for Nikki II and covered in many of the 1913-vintage sporting magazines had a gold inlaid Russian Bear rampant protecting her cubs on one side, the Romanoff's double-headed Eagle crest on the other side also in gold, and the Czar's personal crest N II in platinum on top.
If the rumors are half true, Nash Buckingham's original Bo Whoop has changed hands for more!
Last edited by Researcher; 06/02/08 04:35 PM.
