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Originally Posted by Hondo44
Excellent photos David,
Not be contrary but I believe those are the post war standard curved, nickle plated brass medallions. The wood surface is curved and the left and right edges of the medallion actually dip below the surface of the wood.
The concentric rings appear to be machine tool marks from cleaning up the surface of the brass casting before nickel plating. I've observed those marks on some of my guns and they are not that uncommon.
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Contrariness is welcome, particularly when I am struggling to understnd something for the first time. I still can't make my eyes see some of the medallion distinctions that I hear people draw (though I think I have the early deep-dish medallions pinned down
), so I appreciate the education.
Anyway, it makes sense to me that by 1951 any prewar medallion stocks would have been used up, and stocks would have been fitted with newer ornamentation just as the checking fields were edged with rounded rather than square corners.