I do believe that the restoration of vintage guns has come to the point where they look like they came off the finishers bench yesterday. And of course, it is the owner’s choice to restore to new condition, or the owner could just have enough restoration to stop the guns slide into mechanical oblivion.
As for myself I lean more to letting a gun show its well looked after condition and letting its age shine through and growing old gracefully, rather than displaying what a re-finisher thinks the gun should look like.
But in the end, it is the owner’s choice.

The only lessons in my life I truly did learn from where the ones I paid for!