I like to see through my colors like gasoline on water. Not many restorers can do that. The "big" restorer can do that, and did on my thirty year Parker restoration. That is the only correct type of color restoration for an early Fox. My terminology for the opposite of "gasoline on water" is "muddy". Muddy is not neccesarily incorrect if the original finish on a gun was muddy. Smiths are slightly muddy once the lacquer wears off. They are definitely not gasoline on water like an early Fox.