Is my stock factory?

[Old and Reliable]

Good post there Ray- First ?- does your C Grade have the later 12.5% tool steel plate pinned into the lower barrel lug, or is your gun the earlier series w/o this adjustment feature? I have a 1900 era GHE (sorta) now with Brad B.- the gun was possibly converted from extractor to ejector by a non-factory gunsmith- a Christian Fischer who developed and patented his own after market ejector systems for many extractor guns of that era. Mine was possibly a GH with Damascus barrels, 12 ga No. 2 frame- I bought it 'in pieces" for a project gun- use it for pheasants and SC's--I bought the complete receiver and the matched forearm iron and wood (wood may be from a DH) Brad found a set of No. 2 frame 28" VHE barrels with open chokes- and later a PG buttstock from either a PH or GH-

Did Parker keep records of customer guns sent back for conversions to: ejectors from extractors, double triggers to SST, and later in the 1920's, guns send back for ventilated ribs- also any gun sent back for extra barrels fitted?

I don't have any Parker Paper- but have the work card and tag from the older 12 2E Smith- sent back to Fulton in 1927 for a set of 32" Nitro barrels Full choked and with the factory (Gifford Simmons design) raised ventilated rib- the only one of my current collection of 12 side-by-sides with that feature- and a recent acquistion of a 12 Ideal Grade Smith- with the dated Hang Tag showing it left the Factory in Feb 1945-- but the yellow tag is the 1930's style, according to Houchin's book-

So much history, so many "little twists of fate" that make being a sleuth for details on our beloved double guns such a mystery!!