Unless a customer wanted the specific grade of barrel steel which a gun would originally been made with (excluding Damascus or any of the other composites) Vulcan Steel would have been used for a replacement set. That was the least expensive. Customers who sent back higher grade Parkers for barrel replacement were certainly given the option of barrel steels, Titanic, Acme, Peerless again cost would have been a factor. Remember, the price for an extra or replacement set of barrels was half the price of the gun and many chose less expensive replacement barrels. If there were any remaining sets of composite steel barrels in inventory I imagine that may have been an option as well - to match the barrels the gun may have been made with. Some time after the move to Illion in late '37 - early '38 the inventory of barrels made in Meriden ran out and Remington made their own barrels with no rib inscription or any other identification of barrel steel.
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