My First Parker. What Grade Is It?

[David Noble]

Bill, welcome to the PGCA and congratulations on your first Parker! You are correct about it being a DH grade. The condition looks pretty good, though not a lot of case colors are evident in the pictures. The barrels look on face and it appears to have a solid lock- up. It's always difficult to determine gauge and frame size from pictures but statistics would say it is a 12 ga on a 2 frame. I don't have my serialization book with me to check the configuration but it appears to be all factory correct. The butt is most likely the original skeleton steel butt plate which is a big plus in collector value.
I would say you have a very nice first Parker and a graded one at that!