David: Thanks for the link to the previous thread. I think our two aftermarket ejectors are the same design, if not the same installer. Definitely not the Wolfersperger patent. As EM used to say, "investigation continues." My barrels are original Titanic 30" with no strikeovers, and letter as such. Here are the flats. While they do not have a T stamp, they are almost identical to set of Titanic barrels from my C grade only two years later. Those flats are shown in the next pic. Both show the King inspection stamp and unstruck weight, but no T for steel type. A copy of my Parker letter is loaded as a pdf file at the bottom of my original post for anybody to open--it was too large to print out as an attachment. My impression is that, like today, back then there were probably a few dozen master smiths around the county who could do amazing things to guns. Most of their names are probably lost to antiquity. Thanks again, and thanks to all the other commenters for their input.
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