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Johnny Peppers · 01-07-2002, 02:53 PM

The original blue would have been a rust blue which would have been rather flat rather than shiney. Sounds more like your pistol has had a hot salt blue at some time. As Tom Heller indicated, many of these pistols were reworked to 9mm in the 1940 time frame. This would account for a salt blue finish rather than a rust blue.

01-07-2002, 02:53 PM	#5
Johnny Peppers User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Calion, Arkansas Posts: 1,042 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Bulgarian Mystery The original blue would have been a rust blue which would have been rather flat rather than shiney. Sounds more like your pistol has had a hot salt blue at some time. As Tom Heller indicated, many of these pistols were reworked to 9mm in the 1940 time frame. This would account for a salt blue finish rather than a rust blue.