Ron, your Parker is an enigma.
It started life as a grade 2 but the engraving and checkering and the addition of the fleur de lis and checkered panel upgrades are the real parts to the puzzle.
We know what happened to the barrels... Remington rebarreled the gun.
The engraving coverage is what we would expect to see on a grade 5 or 6 but the quality and execution of the engraving are not up to Parker Bros. standards... possibly done by an engraver at Remington (although I doubt it) but not, in my opinion, done by Robert Runge.
Ready yourself for the very real possibility that you may never learn who made all those changes to 84025.
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