Price and Mullins "extrapolated" their totals, and the serial number range that Mark mentions covers I think it was eight stock books with three thousand guns in each book. Exprapolating P Grades is a lot more difficult than extrapolating other grades.

Guys thank you very much for all the info,have the gun on hold te serial # is 225903 any other info would greatly be appreciated gun has original butt plate also what should the chambers be?And yes it is steel not damascus.

The book says its a phe with 26 inch barrels. You can shoot modern 2 3/4 shells. Good Luck with your purchase.

My post above needs some proofreading. What I meant to say is that, in the period mentioned, there are eight MISSING stock books with 3000 guns each. The actual number of P grades in that era is nothing but a wild guess, although the authors tried their best.

Guys just got the parker and do not know how to post pictures, of barells lats so someone could explain to me all the codes,also woul like to get the gun refurbished needs to b put back on face the barells reblued and wood redone and checkring recut,someone suggested to let Delgreco do the work what do you guys think?also could somone give me there email so i could send them pictures so the gun could be posted

Factor these estimates into your purchase price.

Put back on face $400 - $700

Checkering recut and wood redone - $400 - $600

Barrels reblued - $250 - $400

Assuming the gun is safe and sound- I suggest you consider shooting the gun for a year or two and see if you like it and it works for you. If it does then you can make a determination how much work you need/want. If you don't shoot it well, new (recut) checkering, blue, finish, etc., isn't going to help in that regard. You don't want to get upside down unnecessarily.