Help with a rare Navy

[DonVoigt]

" I would think most would not do that to the gun unless it was period. "

Then you would be wrong, there are many "pimped" up lugers with gold accents on the market, there has been an Erfurt on the marked for months or years that is all over gold plated.

I once had a gold plated trigger and side plate, took about 5 minutes on the wire wheel to get rid of the "gold".