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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vern, post: 28838, member: 347&quot;]The brass is also deeply stained and very full of character, even after a gentle jeweler&#039;s rouge polish.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe a restoration would entail replacing all of the pins to match each other and actually painting or filling in the numbers with whatever they had in them before someone changed the wheel.&nbsp; There are still remnants of black paint in some of the numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someday I&#039;d like to do this, possibly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some more photos.&nbsp; In the first, you can see the engraver made a mistake and almost turned the 9 into an 8.&nbsp; Then, to cover the mistake, the line was filled with silver.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/cZpQ5U5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/cZpQ5U5" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/cZpQ5U5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/lnRlqVJ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/lnRlqVJ" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/lnRlqVJ.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/1pjxMFe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/1pjxMFe" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/1pjxMFe.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/vc7r64x" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/vc7r64x" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/vc7r64x.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/xFwFhbs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/xFwFhbs" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/xFwFhbs.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/eE96NOr" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/eE96NOr" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/eE96NOr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/nWLQXq1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/nWLQXq1" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/nWLQXq1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/e539emX" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/e539emX" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/e539emX.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/kJMO6jF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/kJMO6jF" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/kJMO6jF.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/JxrGYYq" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/JxrGYYq" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/JxrGYYq.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/Y3xNtB2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/Y3xNtB2" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Y3xNtB2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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