A gun being restored, in my opinion, should be brought back to appearing as 'exactly' as it had originally left the factory. Some shops do not do this. They haven't paid close enough attention to every little nuance of a high condition original of the same grade and time period. Some of these shops don't care enough about this aspect of 'restoration' and figure if it is new looking, nothing else matters very much. They sometimes get the checkering wrong and if a gun is being restocked, the shape and the 'nose of the comb' are often wrong, the case colors, whether cyanide or bone charcoal are often wrong and look nothing like the original of the period.
There's a lot that goes into proper, period correct, restoration and there are scant few shops that can do it right.
For these reasons, it is my opinion that the value of a Parker can be significantly elevated by restoration and, on the other hand, the value of a Parker can be severely diminished by a "restoration".
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