Ray, with that mfg date, its clearly a pre ejector gun.
An order book entry tells the order configuration, and is helpful to determine if the gun remains as made. You already know it is not, so the order book is only of historical value to you. As for later factory improvements, a Parker guy ought to be able to determine within a small margin of error by careful inspection whether a feature is factory.
I follow the known Bernard guns and am always interested in looking. Your year of 1900 puts in the range for roundell engraving.
Gold plated triggers would be unusual, certainly not standard for grade, but its possible that when the gun went back to be restocked and ejectors added, the owner had it upgraded with gold triggers. I have a C 16 like that with silver checkered triggers.
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