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A local auction house has a Parker D3 listed. Is D3 a grade and what features would set it apart from other Parkers?
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Cork:
The mystery may reside in a typo. It is probably a "DE" or more properly a DHE. Which of course is a D grade with ejectors.
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A Parker identified as a D3 is a Grade 3 with Damascus barrels.
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Thanks, I think that answers it!
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I think the D and the three stamped on the Parker indicate the same grade. The D, as stamped on the gun, seems to be only the Grade, not barrel material.
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DAM16SXS is correct as always in all matters concering the Parker Gun.
D3 is the code stamped in the barrel flats of a Damascus barreled Grade 3 Parker. This is well researched and presented in THE PARKER STORY and also in the PARKER SERIALIZATION AND IDENTIFICTION BOOK.
Mark
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Here's a pic of the barrel flats on my D4, Grade 3, Parker. My understanding is that the "D" is for damascus, the "4" above it is the number of blades of damascus, (a D with a 3 above it would be a 3 blade damascus set of bbls.), the "3" way to the right is the Grade number (DH in this case) and the 4-1 is the unstruck barrel weight. I'm unclear on what the "C" on the barrel flats and also between the lugs is for, any ideas? 
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Daryl, you are correct if refering to the stamping on the water table but when identifying a particular gun as was originally done by Parker Bros. the barrel steel was identified along with the grade, hence, D3.
Re: the "C"; Some of the stampings on the barrel flats are still not understood - the "C" is one of those. We could speculate but that's all is would be, speculation, as there is nobody laft to verify it.
Thanks for the kind words Mark, but I'm not always correct...
I am, after all, still a student.
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Dam16sxs, your point is well taken. I assumed the grade question listed from the auction house was D and 3 taken from the receiver. Barrel flats could have been marked 3 [grade] and D and 3 or D and 4 as commonly found on a D grade gun. Nothing odd either way.
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Daryl, the auction house could easily have, as you suggest, taken the D and the 3 from the water table, both indicating the grade of the gun. However, the Serialization Book uses the letter D not as a grade designation, but a steel type designation. We Parker guys have taken on the Serialization Book system, (steel type and number grade).
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