Engraving question

[Dean Romig]

I have often wondered the same thing. I have had guns that I would have liked to rub india ink into the engraving on a gun with no remaining case color - but I didn't . . . but who's to say what some former owner might have done in an attempt to enhance the engraving. I don't know what might have been done originally but the black in some engraving is most certainly a hardened mixture of grime and oil.