Another Unusual Parker

[B. Dudley]

Yeah, I would be interested to know what the records say about that. I do not really think that they engraving is original. I suspect the gun was likely ordered without engraving, like we see sometimes, and then the engraving was added later on by someone who did not like the lack of engraving. Maybe by Remington when the barrels were replaced? The whole forend, wood and Metal is V grade. Likely that forend came with the barrels. The forend numbers are in the late font and it is marked with a "2" implying that they original set of barrels was still with the gun when that Remington set was installed.

Interesting gun. But with the price tag on it (over $4k), I will not be the one who finds out more about it hands on.