I checked in the research tool on the home page and it indicates there are no factory records available for your gun. They had no set grades at that time and quite honestly they probably had only a loose standard grade. They came with decarbonized steel or damascus barrels; and back or front action locks. Your gun has l the better barrels, the less expensive locks and pretty average looking wood. It is what it is: a very early and quite rare (given the limited production in the early years) Parker double. It appears to be in nice condition for the age and is a gun desired by collectors in order to fill out a collection. They don't demand really high prices due to the basic nature of the early gun itself and the early design characteristics. However, it is a nice example and a gun a lot of collectors would like to own to fill a niche.
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