Not necessarily Stan, but that is a bit different circumstance. I'll use Lefever here, for example, if those new old stock barrels were an H or G grade set of barrels & you had the barrels engraved to a higher grade pattern, then had them stamped Krupp or Whitworth, which only came standard on the higher grades, then YES I would say it was an attempt to deceive.
The same, in my opinion, would apply to a VH grade Parker "IF" it was restamped to an A1S grade.
Back around 1970, I had a set of barrels made by one of the Bernadellis (Not Vincenzo) in Italy for an FE grade Lefever. They stamped it with the guns SN & grade for which it was made. There is however no way it could be passed off as original as it is marked Boehler Steel & carries all the appropriate Italian proof marks. They did not stamp proof marks on the action, which would, of course, have been done had it been an original gun shipped to Italy & required a trip through the proof house to be legal to sell.
Most of us here are probably capable of telling when the intent to deceive is done, but many are not. I lost all respect for a dealer once when he tried to sell me a boxlock Holland Holland (No &) with Belgian proof marks. When I pointed out the discrepancies to him, he sorta made an attempt to play dumb. I realized though that he did not have a lot of customers interested in doubles & when I came into the store that night he saw "Sucker" in his eyes. Fortunately, I knew just a bit more than he thought I did.
