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For future reference, what the import makers market as "charcoal blue" isn't really. It's actually nitre or fire blue and quite a fragile finish. Real charcoal blue as applied by specialists like Turnbull Restorations is a very rugged but also very expensive blued finish. It has a slight blue hue but is much blacker in appearance than the peacock color of nitre bluing. This is what many 19th century handguns had originally and much more authentic than your typical modern hot salt blue which is very black.
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