Interesting that in every example in each of those links they are all stamped with the same dies/same font.
Finding it hard to believe it is original Parker Bros. work as there is no such stamp discussed in The Parker Story in the pages on stampings, proof marks, etc. (pgs. 580-592) where they even discuss factory stampings who's meanings are unknown.
I say not factory... but again, never say never. For example, (all) guns sent back for work or service after 1910 were automatically upgraded with the 1910 bolt and replaceable wear plate with no mention of it in the factory records, hence no record of the work for a research letter.
Possibly a particular retailer or repair shop stamped it thusly as a disclaimer for whatever work they did... or even just a gun they took in for resale.
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