Coatings Evidence (cont.)
Removed parts of the gun having remnants of old coatings were taken into the lab for study under a binocular microscope.
(BOTTOM IMAGE)
A remnant of old coatings on the (removed) sighting component was found to retain these layers:
No. 9. Oliv Grun.
No. 8. Brown primer or else Rot Brun.
No. 7. Dunkel Gelb (restoration?).
No. 6. Pink primer.
No. 5. Oliv Grun (maintenance coat?).
Note in the bottom image that the later Oliv Grun (No. 9) applied after the abrasive blasting matches the last of the early Oliv Grun coatings (No. 5).
The coating used for the current restoration repainting was custom pigmented in our shop to match layer #5 which is seen as the lowest level green in the bottom image on the right. This is the earliest remnant of a German application of color providing a large enough sample for color matching.
