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The hardest trick will be to try & match the patina on any work you do so that certainly will be no small challenge!
& how to 'age' the blueing!

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There is no "patina" to match. No need to fuss with the still perfect bluing. There is just a little bit of wear on the old scope mount bases. Just a few dents in the stock may be steamed out, without need of complete sanding and refinishing. The old stock lengthening and the perished buttplate, black horn with a red rubber insert, may be or not replaced some day. I hate the idea to "restore" an old gun to "as new"! An old gun may show it's history and should look like what it should be in the first place, a well cared for old gun. This rifle certainly does, as is! Any attempt to "restore" it will certainly ruin it. BTW, I got the rifle because the guy who found it feared some other would mess around with it, f.i. have the old mount bases removed and have a big, modern variable installed. Years ago I stared at an old Englisch dr in the process of such a restoration. Master Otto Weiss (of Hartmann & Weiss, Hamburg)noticed me shrugging and said: "yes I am sorry about that, but the customer wants it to be restored to new condition, restocked, reengraved, refinished all over. The customer is king, but you can easily restore an old gun to death."

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