Enjoy your gun and rest in the knowledge that it is all Parker. I hate to make a categorical statement, but I think I am justified in this case even without having the gun in my hands.
If you want to put a little money into it, you could have the barrels done right and have the barrel end engraving picked up. If it was me, I would also have the skeleton butt plate engraving re-cut. It looks like that was polished off.
My theory of why the drop points were removed.......the refinisher might have tried to sand around them and maybe took off too much on the sides so both sides no longer matched. He probably kept trying to correct the problem and damaged them to the point where it made sense just to totally remove them. A pure guess, but its the only thing that makes sense to me. I don't think anyone with half of a brain would remove them on purpose unless there was a reason to.
The person who did the refinish was not competent, in my opinion. But, except for the drop points, he did not do anything that can't be easily fixed, including the checkering. If it was my gun I would go for it. I can fix the issues myself but even if I couldn't, the gun is worth making things completely right. That's a damn nice gun.
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