Skeleton buttplates ever blued??
 

Question: Were skeleton buttplates ever blued or just CC'd?? If some skeleton buttplates were blued was it specific to a certain period?? Thanks Craig

They were all blued.

Thanks

But the screws were CCH, right? If so, I wonder why?

They were blued.

Bruce, were the screws on th TG blued too? Thx, Ray

As explained in TPS, the SSBP's and TG's and their screws were nitre blued, which gave an irridescent blue/black sheen. Later Rem Parkers used a softer black bluing process ( carbona blue?) that was black and wore more quickly.

This is the best photo I have on hand without taking more.

I think that most people would think that the SSBP's were CCH due to the fact that most you see are bare now-a-days. Most guns that have any use to them are going to have bluing wear off the buttplate after 100 years.