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Doug
That Troj is a pic I lifted from GI after a quick search of the Paakas. That's what the seller claims is left of an old Del Grego resto.


Those pics show my 1905 GH which Turnbull did the caseharding on. I compared them to the hidden colors on another untouched gun made around the same time and it was so close as to be scary. Maybe the pics don't do it justice.

BTW, I think the Del Grego cyanide colors and pattern are nice, but those done like on your Parker don't seem anything like your original Fox to me anyway. That's why I asked if anyone was replicating Fox cyanide color/pattern.

Fox guns used to go to Heinzelman & Son's in NJ for recoloring/hardening w/the cyanide process.
They did the original cyanide case coloring for Fox way back when. The company's been around since WW1 or so.

They still accepted receivers and parts for cyanide coloring as of a few years back.
Don't know if they still do,, or what the quality is now.
There's more than a few 'original' redone cyanide colored guns out there that were sent to them in the 90's and forward.

http://www.manta.com/c/mmbpb30/fred-heinzelman-sons

I don't think they have their own website,,don't recall that they ever did anyway.