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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 340024, member: 54"]More likely to be a plated base metal than either of the copper alloys you mention. Likely recent since they were together (the passage of years would likely have separated them) and are undamaged; the dark stuff is a lacquer or chemical coating, not an age patina. Jmho.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 340024, member: 54"]More likely to be a plated base metal than either of the copper alloys you mention. Likely recent since they were together (the passage of years would likely have separated them) and are undamaged; the dark stuff is a lacquer or chemical coating, not an age patina. Jmho.[/QUOTE]
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