Chris, it does look like cyanide color on the lever. I would like to see the forend latch to see if that too was cyanide colored too. Remington may have been hardening some of the smaller parts with the cyanide process and the larger parts such as the frame and forend iron with the bone charcoal process... There could be any number of explanations for this... perhaps it went back to Remington at a later date to replace the lever... who knows.... ?
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