It is just has an empty circle. No V. The circle was standard fare for most unfinished meriden built barrel sets. The steel type stamp was added in when the gun was being put together. That being the main support for the idea that Parker did not actually use different steel types for their fluid steel barrels. I think the only exception to this would be Parker Special Steel which just had the PS stamp with no circle.
Weep holes would be put in at the time of bluing.
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