I agree with the author in "The Vintage Gun Journal" that they brought the gun back to what it would have looked like if it had been taken care of. I have seen too many L.C. Smith's in both hammer and hammerless that were restored to anything but normal of when the gun was fresh from the factory. Some are hideous. The only ones that had meticulous work done on them were the higher grades, with some of the stocks taking a month or better to finish.

David