James sent me pm asking about where in the Parker Story that said 134037 was the last BH made with Titanic barrels. I thought I'd post part of my reply here in case anyone else was wondering.
Volume 1 of the Parker Story has a series of chapters called the grades. At the end of each chapter, such as the Grade 5(B and BH). At the end of each chapter there are tables with the number of guns made with the different barrel steels and barrel lengths. There were 120 12 gauge BH's made with Titanic steel, and only 30 with 32" barrels. At the bottom of the tables there is some fine print with a few info lines to clarify the tables. Only two Titanic BH's are mentioned, the first made was 87712 in 1897, and the last was 134037 made in 1905. Bottom right hand side of page number 308.
Also, I agree with you about the liking that the barrels were replaced with Titanic rather than Acme steel. It wouldn't be a down grade to replace Titanic with Titanic, but it would have been nice if the forend checkering and engraving patterns were in a BH pattern.
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