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Originally Posted by mossguy View Post
Tabs, what exactly do you mean by "don't shine them up"? isn't "oil'em and clean the dirt/gunk off " about the same thing.

Unconfuse me please.

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Tom
Wipe them down with gun oil , clean off the dirt and grease in the corners, clean & scrub the bore with a brush and cleaning patches.

But do NOT take off any of the Brown colour or sand and varnish the stocks. That brown colour is called patina and took a 100 years of use to put on there. Collectors like it that way...it shows the use and history of the spoon.

The 73 is 1891...

The 62 is 1954..
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