All military Thompsons left the factory with BLUED (DuLite) finish over bead blasted steel. This gave a "flat black" appearance on the upper and lower receiver. Small parts and the barrel weren't bead blasted, so they turned out to be "semi-gloss" black. Parkerized finished TSMG's occurred only during an arsenal rebuild.
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