Could be, Larry. But, I'll hold off judgement until I see it-have only handled the later, blued guns. The Uggies of the era were advertised as having "Black Chrome" barrels, when, in fact, they were fully brazed and hot blued. Nothing wrong with that, but, it is inaccurate.
I actually own a gun with true black chrome applied, and know of another-a Remington 241 my Father had done in the early 1960s. It is off-the-hook shiney. Ditto a Remington 700 with one of the early stainless barrels.
Too shiney, both examples.
Best,
Ted
Ted, if you've handled many of the Ithaca imports--and there's no shortage of them out there, especially when you include the OU's--then you've certainly handled guns with a black chrome finish without realizing it. Not shiny at all, as Terry indicated. If you look at one of the Ithaca imports and compare it to either an Uggie or one of the later SKB 385/485 guns, or a current SKB OU, you'll see the difference immediately.
