It is not uncommon for these early hammer guns to have the stock maker (or forend maker, in this case) to be stamped in the wood.
The forends were a separate operation in the factory. The name will be stamped on some guns in that area. And on the stocks I have seen the name stamped under the top tang and also under the trigger guard. Phoenix is one of them, Beecher is another. I think I have seen a Fletcher or something like that on stocks. And of course Bannister is another.
All this is covered in The Parker Story.
That is a really clean example of the stamp that you have there.
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