Hi all,

Picked up a nice 1917 in an auction last week. Beautiful, original, bluing.
Strangest thing though, the backstrap is polished.

It was wearing a Pachmayr grip but that will be replaced with wooden ones. But of course that's even stranger, the polished area was covered up by the grips that were on it.

Anyone ever see anything like that? It wasn't like that as issued, was it?

It's nicer than my refurbished, parkerized one so I'm keeping it anyway. Just thought that backstrap was strange. I might put some cold blue on there just for display.

Thanks!
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