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Hi. Hope a Parker person can help here. I just picked up an old damascus hammerless Parker, SN 86xxx. I believe the grade to be G, though I'm not overly familiar with Parkers. It has birds engraved on the sides and bottom of the receiver and bottom of the trigger guard. It also has light engraving on the barrel rounds. Here's the part I am wondering about. It has a name stamped twice on the water table, twice on the barrels and once on the forend. The name is C.D. Anschwitz. Not sure on the initials but I think its C.D. Or C.J. Also stamped with a 2 on the frame. Can anyone give some info to me on this? Thanks in advance.

Suggest you ask the guys on the Parker forum. Also, from the forum page, go back the the Parker home page. They have a tutorial on identifying graded Parkers.

http://parkerguns.org/forums/index.php

The C.D. Anschwitz is probably the name of a former owner. The only name that even comes close who was employed by Parker Bros. was a chief engraver by the name of Frederick Anschutz who's tenure was late teens through about early 1930's.

One of my initial thoughts was that the stamp was a past owner's name. I wonder, would a name stamp from an owner have been put on at the owner's request by Parker, or would it have been added. Was the owner stamping their name a common practice during the 1890s? I have looked at lots of shotguns of this timeframe and never seen this, but maybe it's just something that I have never picked up on before?