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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 7795305, member: 76316&quot;]It&#039;s lovely! And yours, so of course you can do as you please, but...whatever value it <i>may</i> have (an&#039; that may be quite a bit, or maybe not...) will be steeply reduced by each of the &#039;restoration&#039; steps you propose. My considered counsel is to savor it for what it is, at this long remove from its origin...and nothing more! Continue to collect, an&#039; learn...seek advice from local &amp; regional experts in the arcana of early firearms, but reserve &#039;fixing&#039; for those rare items that are both cheap to acquire, an&#039; needful of only judicious detailing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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