Good eye on the engraving Brent. That is a very nice example of the earliest hammerless Grade 3 engraving style. It is indeed very close to the Grade 2 engraving style, only slightly more elaborate and with bird dogs in the vignette rather than the birds depicted on the Grade 2 guns. It was early in "Harry" Gough's tenure as chief engraver (1887 - 1898) that the later, more elaborate engraving styles were adopted and were kept right up through the end of Parker production in the Remington era and the onset of WW II.
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