I attended the Dallas gun show last weekend and found three Parker's. One guy had two of them, a pretty rough PH 12ga and a not quite as rough VH. The tag on the VH said it had been upgraded with Vulcan steel barrels! I chuckled a bit about that. However, the barrels were from a different gun and had two tapped holes in the rib on the breech end. The size and spacing of the holes looked about identical to the ones on a Parker Try Gun where the measuring bar attaches. I don't recall the pricing on either gun since they were not to my liking. Both were overpriced, but not grossly so.
The third gun was a VHE with 30 barrels. This gun was very tempting. It had 90 percent case colors on the receiver and I'm fairly convinced they were original. Two things that made me pause on this gun was the barrel finish and the butt treatment. The barrels had about 99 percent blue but looked too smooth (lack of carding lines). The stock had been poorly fit to a recoil pad. It looked as if someone had a pad that was a bit too small and just tapered the stock down to fit it. The taper extended at least an inch and a quarter up the stock. This gun could have been saved and the asking price was only $3000 but I am a bit gun poor from recent purchases so I passed. I hope I see this gun again so I can inspect it in better lighting to ascertain the originality of the colors and bluing.
I was surprised to see three Parker's though.
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