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Originally Posted by John Sabato
See the letter "A" in the first photo...The left side of the photo shows some edge damage of the frame. The vertical striations which are indicative of a "grind" probably by a belt sander, are smoothe in appearance along the edge which means to me that the grind took place after this damage occurred.
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This makes sense. On the other pistol posted, the "turned" corners look better, even with a slight file mark.
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In photo number 2, the closeup of the stamped serial number, I have lightened the contrast a little to make the marks indicated by my "D" arrows show up a little better...which look to me like traces of a previous number on this frame. (there is also a mark above the top of the number "1" which I didn't point out when I marked up the photo.
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This makes me suspicious, too, though grain of the grinding both starts and stops, and continues thru the numbers. But I see what you've pointed out.
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Lastly, I don't see and stamp halos at all on the frame, so the number would have to have been stamped before the grind, and not after the finishing operation...
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I see metal displaced by the stamping and not ground off, which makes me want to say ground, then stamped, then blued (re?).
Thanks for sharing, John!