Some of the last flotsam retrieved from Alfred J Parkers........

[Roger Payne]

I think I've mentioned before that DT & I managed to buy some of the spares that were left behind at the death of AJP. We met up with the late Edna's niece & great nephew. Most of what we purchased were springs, screws, No4 butts, & such like, but in the back garden, lying where they had slowly been mouldering away for several decades, were some items that caught our attention. They were, & still are, in terrible condition, with seized catches, & with whichever surface that was lying in contact with the ground, pretty rotton. But, with enough work, salvageable.......

We picked them up in about 2007, but it took till a fortnight ago for my friend to bring them over to me so that, hopefully this year, we can start to do some restoration work on them. And I must check to see if there are any four screw hinged examples, as my 90L rifle could do with one! There was a total of nineteen all told, although a few have sold 'as is' & both of us have a couple already set aside for our own use.

Anyway, feast your eyes, or wring your hands in despair, as is your wont.....

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