I look at it a bit differently than most, and my percentages would probably be lower than many. Here's how I evaluate it. Let's say we have a gun that has no color worn through to silver areas, none. However, the 90 year old colors are faded badly, as compared to how they look under the barrels on the forend iron. I evaluate the percent they have faded, let's say 40%. So, we're already down to a 60% level on a gun with no silvered areas. Now, if the gun were to have worn through areas from carrying, etc., I then deduct the percentage that is like that from the 60%. So, if we have a gun with 60% of the original color brightness, and 15% of total case colored area that is worn through, I would call it 45% colors.
As I said, that's probably not how most of the world sees it.
SRH
Last edited by Stan; 03/13/15 07:02 PM.
