Hoping this forum may help. Just acquired a 1895 Lee Navy that has most of its metal buffed out, making the markings very faint. I can barely see what looks like a serial # of 5960. Was there a block of numbers recovered from the Maine....thinking that is the reason for the metal being buffed on this rifle.
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