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What gives that away? From what I can tell it appears to have similar wear to other pistols I have seen from the era but I am by NO means an expert.
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Compare your grips to mine. See the checkering on mine?
Sometimes you gotta play Sherlock Holmes / Columbo etc with this stuff. The gun has most of its finish, but the checkering of the grips is completely gone on both sides? Something is fishy there. It would take a heck of a lot of use to naturally wear the checkering like that, and being that they don't bear any other wear, the grips being sanded down is very likely.
As far as the refinish of the metal, I don't see any obvious signs of that but ol Jimmy K has a good eye for this stuff.