Sleeving barrels prior to the early 80's was done by soldering the replacement tubes in place thus producing a visible seam and thereafter tig welding was introduced in the process where the seam could be hidden when rust blued. However,if the breech is Damascus, rust bluing will not hide the cast iron wire. Damascus barrels were popular until post WWI so if Parker did the work you would think they would add a wear plate when they replaced the forend iron for the ejectors. I think the serial # on the barrels was filled in and restamped and # on the forend iron matches the serial # on the barrels, anotherwords the identical set of stamps were used.
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