This is not a Parker story but I too was kind of confused with what should have been a gun produced by serial # records ten years earlier than factory records show. I have an Ithaca 4E NID 16ga two barrel set. Serial # dates the gun to 1928 but the Cody letter shows the gun was completed and sent to a sporting goods store in Toronto, Ontario in 1938. Jessica at Cody says this was very common. Often guns were started then shelved for many years as orders got cancelled or post-poned due to wars and especially the Great Depression so it's no surprise that the SBT in the thread had a year between serial # stamp and manufacture completion. It was WW1 after all. As a side note many Knicks had serial #'s from as early as the 20's not completed for decades! I think the manufacturers often ran batches of receivers, barrels and forend irons and then asselmbled the higher grade and specialty guns down the road as orders came in pulling the matching # parts from a shelf and then putting on the stocks and final assembly of the rest of the gun.
That Parker is gorgeous! Go shoot it! It deseves to be out there doing what it was made for!
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