I was in a local-to-me big gun store today and took the opportunity to look at one of the several Parkers they had on the rack. This one was a 20 ga Trojan. It had nice case colors (though I am not expert enough to discern original from reapplied, so let's not go there) and overall looked and felt ok.
It had the "Parker" name engraved into the floor, rather than "Parker Bros" on the sides, but the trigger guard tang bore a serial number 181xxx.
I thought the name moved to the floor and lost the "Bros" when Remington took over in the '30s. My Trojan is a late 20s gun with a serial 228xxx and it has the name on the sides.
Is the one in the store a composed gun?
Not for nothing, this particular store also recently had a GH tagged as a DH and the help seemed decidedly disinterested when I called them on it.
