Dave Noreen, "Researcher", has implied that Frank may have sold guns identified as "Annie" guns when they were not Annie's guns. In fact, one of the highest dollar Annie Oakley guns was sold in the recent past that was, in fact, not Annie's gun. The buyer, at auction, was apparently happy with his purchase, regardless of its spurious provenance. It is probably not the only one sold at a high price that lacked good provenance. The unusual, if not unique, stock dimensions are the key to an original Annie gun, confirmed by the Parker Brothers records. After Annie became wedded to the weird Lancaster dimensions, all of her special order guns from Parker Brothers conformed to those dimensions. Any Parkers with more common dimensions, ordered by Frank Butler, were not Annie Oakley's guns, unless some other provenance is present.
