You did not indicate where you lived, but with significant guns a person should not act quickly. My suggestion is to bring them to a PGCA gathering place, such as the Southern in April or the annual meeting in September. Lots of nice guns have been harmed by bad case color jobs, machine buffed barrel refinishes, varnished stocks and repointed checkering done with contemporary angles. On pitted barrels for example, lots of times pits can mostly be polished out without rehoning. Rehoning cuts away metal and reduces barrel wall thickness, usually by 006 or so. The pits are usually only cosmetic and newly shiny bores always raise concerns for me.
I'd leave it alone until people who know Parkers got to look at it and you got a variety of opinions.
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