Thanks for all the detective work guys. Sounds like this gun has seen quite a few modifications. Your right, it does have automatic ejectors and they work properly. I can only account for its history for about 35 years or so, A great uncle had it and about 10 other Parkers in his collection, and we're on the east coast. I have this one and a 12 ga. ser 237xxx Trojan with 26" bbls. The other guns do have color case hardened or blued finishes of various percentages remaining. They are all Trojans and Vulcans in 28, 16, and 12ga. I can't say as to when this one got the bolt and plate.

Dean

The breech section is definitly NOT damascus. When you expand the picture i posted it appears to have a damacus like look, but it is not that way when you see real thing. Sometimes digital pictures tell fibs.

Okay... sorry... :duck:

Sorry Dean,
I didn't mean to sound brash. just an observation that had me doing a double take on the gun also, after looking at my own pictures on the post.

Not a problem...

There's so darn much to learn on these old guns.

Well oops.

You were right Dean. I looked again under a very bright Halogen light. :bowdown: