Du-Lite Blued Carbines, Muzzle to Butt Plate

[GolfBravoUSMC]

I just returned from the Crossroads of the West Gunshow in San Francisco and what a day. The very first booth had a large collection of Carbines for sale. The prices ranged from $1,500 to $6,000 and the selection ran from Inland to Singer. Every Stock set was ding free beautifully finished with nice crisp Cartouches and/or Crossed Cannon acceptance stamps. Almost all barrel bands were either type 1A (Unmarked) or type 2, neither of which had nary a dent or scratch. All the metal including barrel, sights, receiver, trigger housing and other parts I could see were finished in a dark Du-Lite type bluing.

I ask the man in the booth why all my parts on my Carbines were Parkerized except for the Mags, some bolts and a few small parts mostly internal and his were blued from Muzzle to Butt Plate. He explained to me that my weapon had probably been through rebuild and at that time it was parkerized. He went on to explain that the Parkerizing process was so top secret that the government did not share the process with the manufacturers until the end of the war.

Just as I was about to take out a Second Mortgage and scoop up a armload of these beauties I was distracted by other booths. One had a great deal on waterfront property in Florida and the other had to do with a bridge in New York, Brooklyn I think. Oh well, maybe he'll be back with more in the future.

P.S. I have a have a Repro Type 1A Barrel Band I picked up for a few bucks on eBay that looks amazingly similar to the ones I saw today on the Blued Carbines.

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[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

So, PM me about the swords?

[imarangemaster]

Front man for "you know who" by Modesto, who gets parts from a "trusted source"?

[Faulkner]

Wow, would have liked to get my hands on that Singer carbine

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I'm assuming a "B coded" Underwood. I don't think anyone would actually stamp Singer, even on one of these newer receivers.

[GolfBravoUSMC]

Front man for "you know who" by Modesto, who gets parts from a "trusted source"?

This guy is from Southern California but likes attract. Last year I watched him sell a $60-70 Remington Rand M1911A1 reparked barrel to a guy for $320. It's funny how all his 70 year old items are in such pristine shape. NOT!

It's appropriate he puts a strip of yellow tape over his guns on display. The only thing wrong is the tape should be marked "Crime Scene" .

[browningautorifle]

"Crime Scene"

Pretty funny...don't worry, we have those up here too.

[imarangemaster]

I wonder where he is getting his stocks? Probably Boyd's or some place, then humping the cartouches. Maybe he is the guy who bought a complete set of M1 Carbine stock cartouches, that was for sale a few years back.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Many of those sets were sold, not just one. Garand sets as well.
Best protection is to educate ourselves on what an original looks like. Thing is some of them are darn good. If it looks like it was stamped last week, it probably was.

[Bruce McAskill]

So Parkerizing was a top secret process during WW2? Guess they forgot to tell companies like Eddystone who used it towards the end of WW1 on their rifles that it was top secret. Funny though is most parts on early carbines were all blued like barrel bands and of course all bolts. Guess bluing wasn't top secret at that time.