I'd just ignore it. Could yourself lucky that you got a good deal.
I see a very similar behavior on vintage fountain pens, my other weakness.
People buy pens with nice engravings and proceed to have them "removed" by some
sort of physical buffing or sanding. Then end result is a pen with a low spot,
which looks crappy. For pens, I actually like the engraving, as it gives the
pen some sort of soul, likely having signed many documents in it's past. I
wonder how many contracts, birth certificates, marriage licenses, or letters a
particularly well-worn pen has been through since the 1920's when I use it.
The upside is that the engravings are typically very professionally done, some
even very artistic
On cameras the engraving is typically crappy electric-pen writing of some guy's
SS# right on the back of the top plate. If the camera was black, I'd just put
some electrical tape over it and ignore it. DIY refinishing, IME, typically
looks like amatuer refinishing and detracts more from the value than an intact
engraving.
But that's just my opinion.
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>Subject: [OM] Getting rid of engraving (was KEH Bargain = silvernose?)
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> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:52:45 EDT
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>One method would be to carefully sand down the high spots (and ONLY the high
>spots) where the engraving has raised the metal (220 grit if deeply engraved,
>followed by 400 grit, or just 400 grit, if lightly engraved). Then prime,
>sand, reprime and resand as necessary until smooth and the engraving is no
>longer
>obvious, then repaint. Done well with an airbrush, it should look like new.
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>Rich
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>One method would be to carefully sand down the high spots (and ONLY the high
>spots) where the engraving has raised the metal (220 grit if deeply engraved,
>followed by 400 grit, or just 400 grit, if lightly engraved). Then
>prime, sand, reprime and resand as necessary until smooth and the engraving is
>no longer obvious, then repaint. Done well with an airbrush, it should
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