David, the photos that RevDocDrew showed included both the darker buttstock (that the Czar's Parker (168304) had when it sold at Jim Julia's, which was not original to the gun) and a lighter, much prettier buttstock. Are you implying that the lighter, prettier buttstock is the one that was found wrapped in some moldy Victorian ladies dainty underthings and the one original to 168304?
You and I stood together at Julia's that day and were discussing the merits of that Parker and paused only briefly when the girl stood, telephone in hand, and shouted so as not to be misunderstood, "I bid a quarter of a million dollars!!" and you then told me that you would be restocking that gun. Did you have the original stock in your possession at that time and believed it to be only a matter of time until the original stock and its Parker were reunited or did you believe you would be creating a new, more attractive stock for 168304 (it being obvious that the replacement stock had obvious issues)??
Dean Romig
