Check some of the better dealers that carry Parkers. You'll find restored Parkers and the prices they are asking. Of course, these are not the prices paid, and we likely will not know those. Don't be confused by the suggested price from someone who knows Parkers but really does not know what the restored guns are going for. This is a complex matter.
I would suggest that you not think of how much your gun is worth (unless you bought it to sell, in which case it's late for valuing it). The merit of your gun is not what someone who doesn't want it says it's worth if you like your gun and feel ok about its value to you.
Enjoy your gun! Don't worry about what someone says it's worth if you plan to keep and shoot it.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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