A PGCA Research Letter is really the only way to determine the Dollar Grade of the gun, and even that is often confusing because of Parker Bros practice of discounting the retail price of many guns.
It has been my experience (and was taught to me by Austin Hogan) that the early lifter dollar grade guns that are most likely to be predecessors of the Grade 2 guns had forend checkering in this style and the checkering on the forend of the subject is more likely to be the next grade lower.
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