What's Wrong With This Picture

[B. Dudley]

It was standard practice when purchasing extra barrels that they came with a new forend as well.

[Pa SxS]

The original order was placed by Hartley & Graham, part of a large order of GH's, PH's, and VH's. Just a standard order for lower grade guns. The gun was returned by H.D. Folsom to "fit new pair 12/28 Damascus 3 blade" barrels and "light." It also states "barrels with flat rib" however this is crossed out and there are two words underneath this but I can't interpret the words. It's something like "not on", "not in", may be even "flat on". I just can't make it out and if I can't read it, it doesn't go into the letter. The price was $40.00 less 25% and 2% so they didn't pay retail for the barrels. There was nothing special about the stock book entry.

Usually when the gun is sent in for a second set of barrels, regardless of steel, they stamp a 2 on the forend metal and forend lug. There is no 2 on the forend in the picture, is there a 2 on the forend lug? I'm guessing that the original barrels were not sent along with the gun, therefore Parker didn't mark them as a second set. I'm also guessing that they sent the forend (or just the metal) and had the iron fitted to the new barrels. Why the engraving is for a GH I have no clue. What grade checkering does the forend wood have?

This is all just speculation, nobody to ask, they are all dead.