Normally when you see a Parker two barrel set, one being Damascus & the other Titanic, it would be on a gun made right at the end of the 19th century or the very beginning of the 20th. The gun, typically, was made with Damascus barrels for black powder and with the advent of smokeless was sent back to Parker to be fitted with fluid steel barrels, typically Titanic (before that great ship went down) I have a CH grade made originally with Bernard Steel barrels and later (1906) sent back to Parker to be fitted with a set of Titanic which I also have. The gun was made in 1899 and the letter shows both sets with the same serial numbers. Oddly enough there was "no charge" for the new set of Titanic barrels.
I have an Iver Johnson 1920 catalogue which advertised Parker Bros. as well as A.H. Fox, Ithaca, Lefever and Iver Johnson. It also advertised hompson Sub Machine guns for $125.00 each hyped as "home protection" & "farmer's livestock protection".
Best Regards, George
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