Curious about halo's

[Norme]

Originally Posted by Olle

I don't know much about these pistols, so this is just a question... These guns were hand fitted at the factory, and I'm sure that most of that needed to be done before bluing. Wouldn't the serial numbers be applied before the bluing then? It seems like it would have been difficult to keep track of the parts through the finishing process if they were unnumbered.

The barrel serial #'s on the earliest Navies, the 1906 n\s, we're struck before bluing, on all subsequent guns, like the 1916 in question, after bluing, and they should show halos.
Regards, Norm