Balder -
Here are a few more pictures. The grips both have the same 86 serial number, but I'll have to check again for a date.
The middle photo of the right side was done on a flat bed scanner - which exaggerated the blue hue in this particular scan. The third picture also has an exaggerated blue hue, perhaps because of the bright sunlight on the blue rag under the gun. I am sure the gun has what's left of the original bluing - and has not been re-blued as it might appear in these pictures. The gun is actually quite pale in regard to color.
I had no clue how difficult it was to take decent photographs of a gun. My best close-up shots were with a 35-105mm Nikkor with a macro lens setting on a Nikon D200 in bright sunlight last Sunday.
Gary -
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