Not really sure what we're looking at there. Is it all bevel? with a hard/soft steel boundary or bevel and blade.

In any event, in the part that is blade or soft steel there are large discolorations/bumps/pits or whatever they are. There are two especially large ones close together almost dead center in the pictures. If you use one or more of those marks for reference it seems that the scratches above and below the marks are erased in the progression of pics but but the mark remains virtually uneffected. Would those be tiny pits in the metal?