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Reply #15 - Jan 30th, 2025 at 4:33pm
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Outstanding and thanks for posting to the OP!

I’d like to replace a barrel on a Marlin 1894 TKD in 25-20 with a new old-stock Badger blank I have.     But then again roll-stamp for another I’m having done has proved a nightmare to get completed.   I would not travel that road twice.   

  
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Reply #16 - Feb 2nd, 2025 at 2:38am
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I have just seen this post, here in Australia it would be considered fraud to mark a replacement bbl with "so called" original markings, do other collectors share my thoughts, or is there no care for authencitity? I have a spare Low Wall 25-20SS with a really bad bbl, intend to get it re-lined then re-sell as a "shooter", but not original.Am I being too pedantic? david a.
  
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Re: Barrel Inscriptions etc
Reply #17 - Feb 2nd, 2025 at 11:07am
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Aussie_Hunter wrote on Feb 2nd, 2025 at 2:38am:
I have just seen this post, here in Australia it would be considered fraud to mark a replacement bbl with "so called" original markings, do other collectors share my thoughts, or is there no care for authencitity? I have a spare Low Wall 25-20SS with a really bad bbl, intend to get it re-lined then re-sell as a "shooter", but not original.Am I being too pedantic? david a.


I can see how some might be mislead by unscrupulous sellers of rebuilt, or faked firearms, but most collectors can easily tell a laser engraved or hand engraved rollstamp over real rollstamps. So I for one have no problem with this and will likely have it done in the future.
When I have a new barrel installed on a nice old gun I'd like it to look as close to what I took off the gun. It's more a case of doing a proper restoration than fraud or misleading a buyer.
I collect Ballard rifles and their barrels are never stamped with the Marlin rollstamp. So if I rebarrel one and leave it unmarked am I misleading people who don't know it's been rebarreled?
  
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