Help with barrel flat markings please

[Kevin McCormack]

More highly than expected wood quality commensurate with grade of gun is quite common on Remington Ilion-produced Parkers. The higher-grade wood brought from Meriden to Ilion wound up on a lot of Remington Parkers (e.g., V- and G- grade) that would not have normally been stocked with such highly-figured blanks. Rather than purchase and shape more plain-Jane blanks, Remington used what was at hand.

With only a few years to go until WW II sealed the fate of the Parker Gun, and with so few Remington Ilion Parkers produced, we pleasantly see lower grade guns with high grade wood fairly frequently. One of the very best is a VHE 12 gauge 1/2 frame skeet gun that made its way through the Washington DC area around 10 years ago. The wood on it would have made a D grade proud!