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Originally Posted by Robert Delk
I heard from a well known dealer that a famous Parker repair/restoration shop offered to stamp his GHE with skeet markings when they refinished it in the 70's.They had the correct stamps apparently.
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That would have been DelGrego’s shop. I have seen several Parkers of various grades that were “upgraded” to “Skeet Gun” configuration but a lot of them were double trigger extractor guns without the reinforced forend lug but had the ‘appropriate’ Skeet stamps.
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