EDG, if you will look in The Parker Story, the key reference books for Parker enthusiasts, you will see on p. 427 photos of frame forgings and explanation of the hammer forging process.
A person can learn a lot about Parkers, restorations including correct charcoal color case hardening, and what is correct in Parkers, by study of TPS, which was written by experts on the Parker gun and the Charles Parker Company.
Bruce Day, no expert but I've read a lot, learned a lot from experts and been fortunate to have been around a lot of nice Parkers.
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