Jim, 88220 is in the book as the first VH grade gun so the gun you are looking at predates that by almost 2000 guns. Many damascus guns were rebarreled by Parker so there is a good chance a letter would answer that question. As far as Parker using the barrel steel and marketing them under different names we are not sure just yet. We know that Parker used different steel suppliers for different grade guns and that those suppliers changed over the years. So in that sense they were different. Back during the years of Parker production I don't think that any two barrel steel suppliers were capable of producing steel that was exactly the same percentage wise. Maybe I'm splitting hairs here...
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