[Dean Romig]

The colors are a little over the top, more vivid than original Parker Bros. colors but nicely done anyhow.
The lever looks about right for a new or completely restored gun.
The checkering pattern on both the forend and the stock are only remotely correct in both pattern and LPI - on this gun, for a PH grade the LPI is much too fine or too many lines per inch.

I have handled a lot of restored Parkers with great colors, excellend checkering, wonderful barrel refinish both rust-blued steel as well as refinished Damascus and the majority of them were loose at the hinge pin or "off face" and a great many also still sport buggered screws. This one appears to have nice screws anyway. It escapes me why someone would go to the trouble and expense to bring a nice Parker back almost to "new" condition yet still leave these very obvious tell-tale issues unresolved.