Bill - NICE GUN!
I can't help you on the value, but in my experience, the sideplates are often different in color because they may have been made from a different steel, or at least made to a different hardness. Your sideplate does look original to the pistol to me.
The mags also look original to the pistol and not force matched IMHO.
Ed, what you said about the numbers on the inside of the sideplate is generally true, but I have seen exceptions over the years...
A nice gun overall. Congrats Bill!
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regards, -John S
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