Bill, you must be aware that Remington purchased Parker's parts inventory along with the gun business. In that inventory was an untold number of unnumbered frames. In manufacturing those frames, Parker (not Remington) gradually changed the amount of filing (shoe filing) that they did on the bottom of the frame. The earliest hammerless frames have the "bullet nosed" filing almost touching the trigger plate. As the years went by,less and less metal was removed, to the point where the end of the "bullet nose" was around 3/8" from the trigger plate. The latter was in the latest Parker produced frames in the early 30s. The "parker Story" by Price et al, has a good, detailed section on this. My collection of "Gs" bears this out and allows me to date the subject frame to around 1910.
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