Please help with WRA finishes

[Garandrew]

I didnt want to state that to FTD, but it looked funny to me too...mine supposedly was used by a Marine in the So. Pacific. I have the original bill of sale, and the gun shop owner told me it came in from an ex-Marine who was in the pacific in WW2

[BrianQ]

Thats what I always was wondering about, there is no deep green park, but could it be a faded zinc phosphate, as Im learning the manganese phosphate was deeper green with the years, and cosmoline?

It's the chromic acid rinse that imparts the green tint to the finish not the base metal of the phosphate coating or cosmoline.

[Garandrew]

Brian, does that green from the acid rinse wear out? Here a comparison between barrel/receiver

[BrianQ]

Brian, does that green from the acid rinse wear out?

No, but the finish wears.

[Bubba-7]

$240.00 in 1980 is like $480 in 1990, $960.00 in 2000, and $1,920.00 in 2010 dollars.

[DaveHH]

Here is good original Winchester color. This is a 5.6, Mar 1944

[painter777]

Great example Dave,

Do you think the lube hole was added while in service? (WWII era)

I ask because I have a W code Underwood that looks to have had just the lube oil added, but still has the flip rear sight and Type I barrel band.
Other than the lube hole, looks to be original finish with expected wear found on the metal where it contacts the stock...etc.

Charlie

[DaveHH]

A very, very, very good source offered an opinion that this carbine shows no signs of a rebuild. There is also a known example very close in number to this one that is a "mirror image" right down to the Underwood recoil plate. So it may very well be that the type five TH came into use earlier than thought. The variations are not surprising as the recent Winchester featured in the CC newsletter was made on probably the same day as this one and had no oil hole and a flip sight. Both have type 2 bands. I've owned this carbine a long time, nothing has been changed and as mentioned it is all Winchester except for the Underwood recoil plate which etched the wood and appears original to the stock (it was extraordinarily hard to get out as well).
Thanks Charlie