It may very well in fact be a re-cyanide colored gun. Parker experimented with the cyanide coloring process well before the Remington buyout and documentation regarding the process and results exists in private hands. This gun may well be an original product (or a redo) of their earlier cyanide process; notice the 'splotchy' pattern coverage of the colors on the sides of the receiver as opposed to the vertical "zebra stripe" pattern(s) on the receiver body forward of the shoulder break extending to the hinge pin area.
"Splotchy' colors are most often the product of a true 'bath' effect, e.g., the area is swirled or washed slowly through the cyanide solution, whereas the "zebra stripe" effect is most often the result of dipping the work slowly up and down in small surface area increments (think the colors of the very earliest Perrazi guns imported from Itally by Ithaca in the early 1970s). They could have used both on this gun and the process could be factory original.
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