It would be highly unlikely that there was any mark there originally. If there was anything written in that area, it would have had to been in Cyrillic. The only safety marked 1900 was the Bulgarian, and the serial number is too low for that. I have to admit, if you use your imagination it looks like you can make out a couple of script letters, maybe â?�geo...â?� <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

haha,

Yes, he must have used ordinary ink before he had his 'GL' stamp made :)

But seriously, if one would mark a blued gun using ink or a marker, would it affect the blueing?

Yes and No... it depends on the chemicals in the ink and how they react to steel and the blue surface. Personally I wouldn't write anything on the surface of a gun... You never know what will affect the finish.

Most folks don't realize that a nickled gun exposed to Hoppes #9 for an extended time will cause the nickle to dissolve! I know a friend that had a S&W Nickle Model 29 that once wiped his gun down heavily with Hoppes before he put it away for longer than a year. When it came out of the wool-lined pistol case a year later, it had to be returned to Smith&Wesson to be restored...

Hoppes #9 dissolves copper. When a gun is nickel plated, it is first plated with a thin coat of copper and the nickel plate is applied over the copper plate. That is why Hoppes #9 as well as other copper solvents, should not be applied to nickel plated guns. :rolleyes: