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I think an unnatural number of the English guns of about 75 yrs old or older, sold by dealers in the U.S., show near 100% colors and often blueing as well. The English either don't touch the frames with hands, guncases, or cleaning cloths in the guns life or they are re-done.
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That is a light color, not at all overpowering. Interesting even for me, and I am a confirmed grey action- coin finish person.
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I think an unnatural number of the English guns of about 75 yrs old or older, sold by dealers in the U.S., show near 100% colors and often blueing as well. The English either don't touch the frames with hands, guncases, or cleaning cloths in the guns life or they are re-done. Chuck, With the climate in England there is an awful lot of rust on everything, poor storage etc......nothing much survives that climate .....most of the guns you speak of are refurbished/spruced up for the market place, but there are a lot of beaters out there too.....I think England invented the word mold. Remember the before and after pictures from Tony Treadwell and others. Their cars fare even worse, rust from bumper to bumper generally if they are driven and not plastic.
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An unusual engraved re-cased L. C. Smith by Turnbull.
Last edited by 2holer; 08/20/13 08:37 PM.
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Another tasteful AA Brown offering: If 40k-50k of loose change ever finds its way into my pocket, they will be my first call . . . .
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Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
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I remember an article in DGJ not too long ago where Mike Campbell (I think that's his name) restored a WR drop lock where he had it re-colored. He wanted a subtle hint of color as I remember. When it came back he thought the colors were a little too strong. He used a product called Simichrome (sp?)to lightly rub the colors out some. The end result looked very good.
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On the subject, I recall a lovely Woodward hammer gun in very un-messed condition which I lost a bidding contest with a UK dealer for. It made about 4,000. I saw it for sale at a Game Fair a year later, fully done-up and re-coloured. To my eyes, he had killed the gun. Asking price was 9,950. Someone bought it - maybe it was Mike Campbell! I've been offered 11,500 for it. Just think...if you owned it, might be worth 5?
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+1
Practice safe eating. Always use a condiment.
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I think an unnatural number of the English guns of about 75 yrs old or older, sold by dealers in the U.S., show near 100% colors and often blueing as well. The English either don't touch the frames with hands, guncases, or cleaning cloths in the guns life or they are re-done. Chuck, With the climate in England there is an awful lot of rust on everything, poor storage etc......nothing much survives that climate .....most of the guns you speak of are refurbished/spruced up for the market place, but there are a lot of beaters out there too.....I think England invented the word mold. Remember the before and after pictures from Tony Treadwell and others. Their cars fare even worse, rust from bumper to bumper generally if they are driven and not plastic. Yeah they even have a city named mold...
Last edited by Chuck H; 08/21/13 04:17 AM.
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