NEW PARKER OWNER IN NEED OF HELP !

[Dean Romig]

It would seem that your Parker was originally made with Damascus barrels but possibly returned to Parker Bros. at some time later to have the barrels replaced with fluid steel barrels. Titanic Steel barrels were the standard for the grade 3 but the Special Steel was less expensive. This is all hypothetical of course and the barrel replacement may have been done by another expert gunsmith.

[Autumn Daze]

Thank You Dean. What Dean is saying is that a gun with a serial number in the 72,000 serial range was too early to have left the factory with fluid steel barrels. The gun would have been equipped with damascus barrels. All the more reason to get a letter on the gun.