eBay Navy Toggle/Boosted?

[Ron Wood]

Pete,
I think your WAG is dead on. You posted while I was getting my stuff together to reply to Dwight as follows:

Good photos Dwight, and your observation concerning the flat machining on the rear of the slider is correct. If you look at your sight and the refinished eBay sight, you will see that the sliding portion of your sight protrudes slightly beyond the base at the rear. On the refinished sight, the slider is flush with the base; evidently having been ground/polished off at the same time the serial number was ground/polished off. It would seem that whoever did the refinishing did the two pieces together, perhaps to remove pitting, and the result is a flush fit between the two pieces and a higher flat machining on the slider.

If you compare the "button" on the eBay sight and your sight with the repro, you can see that there is much more â??metalâ?� above the button on an original sight. Also, the checkering on the toggle knobs of the eBay sight appears to conform much more to your sight than the repro.

The real telling factor is the large radius on the rear of the repro sight. Below I have drawn a line above the hole for the sight catch on all three sights. You can see that the serrations below the line and the transition from the flat machining to the radius is significantly different on the repro slide, but quite similar on the original sight and the eBay sight.