Restore a parkerized luger?

[dm]

This particular luger is a 1936 date S/42 common military with familiar military inspection stamps. The s/n is 3032o


It was interesting in that the markings were not buffed but sharp as new despite the gun being parked. The bore was well worn but all parts were original and the straw parts were still straw. The mag as gone and thegrips well-worn and cracked (I did not check to see if the grips were orign s/n but alol metal parts were original including the fire blue parts which were still fire blue. The toggle pin even had the s/n on it. All in all an unusual parkerized luger but not the only one in existence. Several were parked over the years. This one was green parkerized. I have seen grey phosphate on Finn reworked M23's. Otherwise I do not know of any parkerized/phosphated lugers. That is, I did not think any were done original in phosphate/parkerizing.


Does the metal surface get roughed up by parkerizing?


Dave