Experimental Ejector B Grade???

[B. Dudley]

Since the ejector mechanism on your gun was patented just a couple years before the patenting and implementation of the Parker ejector mechanism. And also the gun was built just before the Parker mechanism, this gun was either fitted at time of manufacture by a third party or aftermarket by a separate company for the owner of the gun.

I do not know by what exact means Parker would have fitted outside parts like ejectors and single triggers when a guy was being built if a customer wanted the features before Parker offered them themselves.

A few observations on your forend. The ejector hammer and spring setup is similar to that of the Fox ejector system.
Also, if you look at the front side of the hammer cutout in the forend, it looks like it has part of the milling in it that would be in a factory Parker iron for the ejector hammers. That along with the shape of the iron, which is an ejector only iron would suggest that a factory Parker iron was modified for using this design.
This would also suggest that the iron may not be original to the gun. Since it was built in 1900 and the Parker ejector iron was not implemented until 1901. ???

The Parker ejector system was designed and patented by King and Hayes in 1901 and Parjer stuck with that design until the end of production.
Hayes did design a prototype design for an improved ejector mechanism in the late 1920s, which was basically very similar to the regular Parker design, but with cool springs. The new design was fitted to at least 2 guns that we know of. One owned by Charlie Parker (story goes that Delgrego tossed it out) and the Prototype Trojan that is in the Remington Museum. Not the Trojan skeet gun, that gun has the typical type Parker ejectors in it. Just a different forend latch.