At the risk of belaboring the point, you wouldn't reblue a mint gun. A mint gun has all it's original blue and no damage. Like the man said, it's not only possible but commonplace for a pistol to have most of it's blue worn off with no pitting, excessive wear or other damage. These pieces are good candidates for acid-cleaning and rust bluing with no buffing or other corrective work. This results in a very good-looking pistol which retains 100% of surface features. I would do this to my own gun if it were not particularly collectable.
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