What do I have here?

[Mark Beasland]

16 ga VH 1899
https://i.imgur.com/fSmJDH7.jpg

[David Noble]

Interesting. A PGCA letter my tell if it was special ordered with the extra touch of engraving.

[Dave Noreen]

From time to time we see a VH with an extra flourish or two/

https://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=32536

Perhaps on the OP's gun the engraver screwed up the doing the Parker Bros. in the normal location between the screws and did the scrolls to cover that up?

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[Brian Dudley]

Nice. I recently saw a 1/2 frame remington VHE with extra engraving on the middle of the trigger plate.
This one that you have Mark is the most “embellishment” on a V grade that I have seen.

[Rick Riddell]

Originally could have been a requested unmarked gun that someone had marked up.

[Dean Romig]

That’s certainly a keeper Mark!
I have pics of a VH with flying pheasants on the sides which, though not supported by factory records, look exactly like the ones we see on early GH and higher Parkers. The scroll however does not resemble that of known Parker grades.





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[Brian Dudley]

Here is the VH trigger plate that I mentioned earlier.

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[Richard Flanders]

It's late on a Friday afternoon and the engravers just didn't want to start on another gun....

[Phil Yearout]

Brian’s pic looks a bit “home-made” compared to Mark’s.

[Dean Romig]

Pics added to my previous post.





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[Brian Dudley]

Pics added to my previous post.





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The birds on that gun are the only thing that look like they could have been done in the factory. The other additional engraving is of various other mixed styles.