A few years ago, Julia had in his online auction catalog quite a few Parkers that were listed in Mint condition. Naturally the price that they expected was high.
Doug Turnbull say this pre-catalog and called Julia saying that he had refinished these guns and had the serial numbers in his ledger.

Thanks to Doug notifying Julia or else it might have caused a problem later. His own staff of experts couldn't tell,

You are right, Caveat emptor.

David