I believe it may be the lighting of the pictures, exposure and perhaps some over aggressive cleaning that has given these pistol's finish that "look" in the pictures.
The artillery and Navy would have been rust blued and the 42 date hot blued, and should not look as they do in the pictures.
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03man(Don Voigt); Luger student and collector.
Looking for DWM side plate: 69 ; Dreyse 1907 pistol K.S. Gendarmerie
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