Ill throw my opinion in here. If you look at the barrel flats of most damascus guns you see contrast like these barrels but the field is uniformly darker than we might expect. This could be due to less wear, less sunlight, or less carding during the finishing process, or it could be the originals were uniformly darker than we now expect. Some allegedly original examples have been posted here which bear this out, but its just my theory. Its also highly subject to material composition and chemical process as stated above.
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