Originally Posted by Robertovich
Dear BoatBum, this is a wonderful story. I researched Matska's guns and wrote an article once. I hope you find the answers there. Regards, Igor
https://wp.me/p461yQ-PT
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Thank you Igor, that is an excellent article! Please let me know if there are any other details I can provide for your spreadsheet.
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Originally Posted by Remington40x
Boatbum:

Sometime in the 1990s, Griffin & Howe had a number of guns for sale that came out of the DDR after the fall of the Berlin Wall. All had been hidden by their owners during the era of Soviet control of East Germany and they all had similar pitting issues to those shown on your gun. If Paul Chapman is still with them, he could tell you more about that group of guns and what restoration techniques were used to rectify the issues with them.

I will get in touch with them, thanks for the lead.