Misrepresented Parker Hale "sniper scope"

[jimmieZ]

Here is another posting from the jolly old UK for a "very rare WWI sniper scope:

Vintage WW1 Parker Hale Sniper Scope with Parker Hale Mounts | eBay

When I sent a very well meaning message to explain what he really had (and just because it has PH scope rings - that does not make it a PH sniper scope). Well, I just received a rather "rude" reply from this seller basically telling me to bugger-off.

The extent some people will go to to propogate a falshood never fails to astound me.

Jim

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[enfield303t]

Well Jim good for you to correct him on this, again proves you really can't fix stupid.

[Maple_Leaf_Eh]

You can always rat him out to the ebay authorities, but that might make them cease all scope listing, etc.

[JerryEAL]

If you look at the photobucket with the listing,it looks like he put the wrong pictures up,as there are 2 different scopes. No clue what the second one is. Nice No 53 though.Photo and image hosting, free photo galleries, photo editing

[boltaction]

Interesting. I looked at this thread, clicked on the link, and then while I was "on Ebay anyway" decided to snoop around a bit. I searched Ross rifle, and came up with, among other things, a "deactivated" bolt for a Ross cadet. The seller is interesting--different user name, but same essential contact information, one presumably the wife, the other the husband? Ebay has fairly strict rules about having "multiple personalities"................

Take a look at the two listings:

Vintage WW1 Parker Hale Sniper Scope with Parker Hale Mounts | eBay

Ross Rifle 22 1917 Bolt Deactivated | eBay


Ed

[Patrick Chadwick]

You can always rat him out to the ebay authorities, but that might make them cease all scope listing, etc.

I doubt that they would care at all. It is not like an specialist auction house, where articles are often inspected by in-house experts before being accepted and listed. The organizers of on-line auctions appear to have no more responsibility than the organizers of a fleamarket or bootsale. That is to say, evidence of the selling of stolen goods would presumably promote action, but differences of opinion as to originality of the goods - forget it!

[Brian B]

I have been following his auctions. His prices are out of control. Check out his auction for a BA 21 rear Enforcer base only:

Parker Hale No BA21 Scope Mount Enfield Scope Mount | eBay

Brian B

[Maxwell Smart]

I have been following his auctions. His prices are out of control. Check out his auction for a BA 21 rear Enforcer base only:

Parker Hale No BA21 Scope Mount Enfield Scope Mount | eBay

Brian B

Words fail me. The asking price is crazy, as is the postage cost!

That same part was available in the white from Numrich for about $25.

I don't know how the sight fulfills function 2 in his description - the peep sight has been ground off!
Also, his idea of mounting the scope using ONLY the ring on this base is a very doubtful proposition.

[Peter Laidler]

The real answer here is for ebay to make every question asked appear on/in the format AND the answer!

[Patrick Chadwick]

I know nowt about WW1 sniper scopes. But that is not necessary to pose the screamingly obvious question: How did Parker-Hale manage to make a sniper scope in WW1, considering that the company was NOT renamed Parker-Hale until the 1930s?

And no, you can't wiggle out of it by saying "of course, it's the company that later became Parker-Hale". It was definitely still A.G. Parker in WW1. If you allow this vagueness, then I.M.O.H. you are permitting yourself the same inexactitude as that used by unscrupulous sellers to create a spurious provenance.