Originally Posted By: John Mann

PS--Blued Damascus????

I've seen another high grade Greener recently with the damascus pattern barely discernable under the blacking/blueing; one suggestion is that some decades after being built, it was refinished (by Greeners - the paperwork says so) in accordance with more modern fashions and preferences, and re-sold. Good gunmakers knew damascus was perfectly sound, so instead of putting a set of steel tubes on, the old ones were just finished to look new
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