Firearm finish is polished, oxidized metal. What you see is what you get. The remaining colors, shapes, and dimensions tell the story in its entirety. No military sidearm with a million copies produced in series runs of thousands at a time can be expected to have collectible provenance in the same sense as an oil painting. But if you insist on regarding it the same way, I question the ethics of adding rework marks not correlated with the safety certification of firing proof loads. Should Mona Lisa be so marked after every cleaning?
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