I'm going to slack off just a tad on my opinion. Here is a picture of my little 28 gauge Skeet gun that went back to Remington in 1942 to be refurbished. It too has been buffed prior to re-case coloring. You can see where some of the graver walk border has also been buffed off or pretty thin on the edges, and I don't know if the graver walk 'shading' in the PARKER letters was done before the buffing or after, so I'll stand down... there are just too many unknowns in the world of Parkers.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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