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Reply #15 - Jan 9th, 2015 at 11:31pm
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Re: A very different HW
Reply #16 - Jan 10th, 2015 at 12:42am
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Spud wrote.
This rifle has not been fired much since the 50's and the brass has not been polished much so it has started to develop a nice mellow patina. 

Aha!  It's silver plated!

If it were brass it would be all tarnished and looking bad. I've been fooled by the yellow tarnish on silver. It does that. 

Thanks for the pictures, Spud. Nice rifle.



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Reply #17 - Jan 10th, 2015 at 1:38am
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If it is silver, there is a product called Silver Dip sold at Jewellers and some Hardware Stores. Wet a Q Tip with the chemical and gently stroke the brass/silver plating with it after a few minutes wash off the chemical and oil the action. This method is far less aggressive than other polishing compounds and it is cheap. You wife may have some already for cleaning her silver jewellery. It cleans the metal rather than removing part of it. Good luck.

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Re: A very different HW
Reply #18 - Jan 10th, 2015 at 9:11am
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That's is a gorgeous rifle, nice features, congrats.

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Re: A very different HW
Reply #19 - Jan 13th, 2015 at 5:35pm
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Gday,
         Just to let you know the Hahndorf Kingship is alive and well,we shot the 150th last Dec, Neville Jones won it for the 15th time ,makes him the 10 percent man I guess..the open div is mostly shot with 30cal single shot T/R rifles,BP div saw an assortment of cals,Hi Walls,Rolling blocks,Ballards,Martinis,I did not shoot this year, I use a 1874 Swede R/B Douglas barrel 
In40/65,We shoot for the honour of adding a silver medal to the apron,It now has more than 140 attached and is valued at more than $250k AU.Hope this is of some interest.

                  Kind Regards Mal.
  
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