Mr Luchow, we've posted dozens of pictures of Dale's work on this website.
Larry, Dale cards the barrels and goes lightly on the rib so as to not degrade the matting and any inscriptions. I saw this one at the shop and it would not come clean. The only thing to do was to leave as you see it, or card it down so severely that the matting and inscription were ground down. While there is an engraver on call to do touch up work by hand, only limited areas can be done, often to reengrave "damascus" after somebody had tried to grind it out. Maybe there is some kind of coating on this one, but it would not come out in all the cleaning and the light carding.
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