Thanks for all of the comments and questions!
I am not an expert on French Gray vs Renaissance, nor am I sure that they are not one and the same. That said, I have several French Grayed guns in my collection and I have handled and inspected many more and the finish on this one is different than the French Gray ones that I have inspected, most of which have some variance in the gradation of gray, particularly in some tight to reach spaces. On this gun the gray is uniform throughout. It also appears to have some coating on it that gives it a high-gloss appearance when it is in hand. I have no idea how the process was done, but the results are something that I really like. Perhaps it was "grayed" and then the engraving was "inked" and a protective coating was then applied??
Hopefully one of our resident engravers will come along and help us with this question.

I am not an expert on French Gray vs Renaissance, nor am I sure that they are not one and the same. That said, I have several French Grayed guns in my collection and I have handled and inspected many more and the finish on this one is different than the French Gray ones that I have inspected, most of which have some variance in the gradation of gray, particularly in some tight to reach spaces. On this gun the gray is uniform throughout. It also appears to have some coating on it that gives it a high-gloss appearance when it is in hand. I have no idea how the process was done, but the results are something that I really like. Perhaps it was "grayed" and then the engraving was "inked" and a protective coating was then applied??
Hopefully one of our resident engravers will come along and help us with this question.

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