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Most of the old near wedge blades with “frosted” etch were mirror polished.
Those that I have seen without etching were not mirror polished.
But later when hollow ground blades with black...

Difficult to vote on this one…I am both a collector and a user.
Those I find in already in good condition I will only clean the obvious crud (if any) that shouldn’t be there. However if in bad...