Years ago an acquaintance I made shooting pigeons happened to have owned a pawn shop. I casually asked him at a shoot one Saturday if he had any Parkers in for hock; he said he had just taken in a really nice PH grade 20 gauge gun but of course "you know you can't shoot smokeless powder loads out of it because all of them were built Damascus barreled." When I asked him the SN of the gun he said "just before they quit making them."
The following Monday I took a couple of hours of leave off my job at noontime and drove out to his shop. He wasn't there but his counter guy got him on the phone and I said "How much do you want for this PH 20"? He said, "Well since you'll have to buy black powder shells in 20 gauge and I don't know where in hell you'll find those, I'll take $1500 for it."
It was a 228XXX series PHE 20, 26" PG SFE DHBP in about 75% original condition, choked IC & MOD. And, oh yeah, it had Parker Steel barrels!
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