Please tell us what stamps are evident on the barrel flats when you get to examine the gun again.
During the roughly 3 years that Parker made their own Laminated steel barrels, and your serial number falls right in there, they made only four Grade 4 guns with those barrels.
We have found that a number of these guns are recorded as Damascus barreled but actually have the Laminated barrels. If yours is one of these few it will likely have a P stamp where the barrel steel mark goes, otherwise it will have the D stamp likely with a 4 above it.
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