Thanks very much Brian, this is helpful. I've been working off an exploded-view diagram and your photo shows the diagram is depicting the post-1910 mechanism.
TxHuntermn's gun has the pre-1910 mechanism, so perhaps one of the pieces circled in red in the photo (taken from your photo) below must have snapped off?
I am working up the courage to take apart one of my Parkers to actually see this stuff for myself.
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