Incidentally, this gun is completely "right" as confirmed by this paragraph in the Grade 8 Guns section of the Grades chapter of The Parker Story. Though 137720 is identified in the Serialization book as a W8.
The other two pictures are provided only as a comparison to a later Grade-8 Parker A-1S No. 168304, The Czar's Parker auctioned at Julia's in 2007.
You will note that on the water table of 168304 the "S" stamps both above and below the serial number appear to have been stamped at a later date than the original A1S and 8 stamps immediately above and below the serial no.
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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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