SO HERE IS A WEIRD ONE
 

This GH is advertised on GB at this time. I have no connection to it. The seller is very clear that the barrels are Damascus, not Titanic Steel. I wonder why someone would make this change to the barrels? He also points out that someone added a number "2" to the serial number.

One more pic

After going through all of that "effort" you think they would have blued the barrels to really hide that fact that it was damascus. It is an interesting piece of history...the lengths someone would go to cover up "dangerous" damascus barrels...

Better job than this 'Vulcan' over 'Damascus'

https://photos.smugmug.com/Damascus/...Damascus-S.jpg

I suspect those barrels were blued at one time and some time since wer properly finished.

And surprise, surprise… they’re really Damascus. :shock:





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I am thinking the same thing as Dave. Someone faked it at one time and they have since been refinished properly. But the rim legend change left.

The roll stamp on the rib is screwy also. There's too much space between the T and the A. ie: TIT ANIC. Gorgeous damascus pattern though; I'd be bragging about that one if it were mine! Seems a lot of G grades got really nice damascus barrels and wood.

Right Richard. In fact, a lot of GH’s got D4 barrels, the subject gun having D3.

I can’t remember ever seeing D5 barrels on any Parker and the D6 barrels were usually stamped DD which are most often seen on BH and higher guns.





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Actually the gun shouldn’t even be for sale with an obvious and provable altered serial number.





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