Letters are not available on all Parker restocked guns and if a gun was restocked multiple times by Parker that may be only partially documented by available Parker records.
Yes, I suppose it would be possible for a stockmaker to stamp in numbers in the correct orientation and with the correct number style and size, and to make the channel with a machine inletting tool instead of a chisel. I suppose so but I haven't seen one that precisely done yet or if I have seen one done that way and it is in all other respects a perfect Parker stock, it may not matter to me.
As a practical matter, in every instance I can recall here, somebody has posted photos of a stock that looks off in some respect and we've suggested to check the numbers under the tang and of course there are none.
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