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Hair dye. Leather dye may also work (they're both forms of keratin), but it's easy to find the dark brown hair dye that matches old scales. Black is a little too black, you can see that it's a teeny,...

Thanks Tom! That's high praise coming from you!

There were two things that precipitated me getting back to it.

1) Having my workshop fully set up and operational (which involved burning out the...

That's a later Magnum Bonum (later in this case means after 1820). Before 1820, it was a recognizable blade style:

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Nope! It's the most standard W&B blade shape I've seen. I have 4 or 5 of them in the same pattern, just none quite so large. And well, I don't have any quite so large since I sold this one.

I got carried away a bit and never took before pictures and only managed to save a single one from the original listing (this was part of a lot I grabbed on eBay).

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Literally, I took it...