many signs of the typical Ruger "high polished" job, yes, over polished as to letters ,numbers, (rollmarks) as well as the any and all the screw holes...this does NOT happen when you polish by hand or with a flat surfaced tool.........the recoil shield looks fine, my question is the direction of the polishing on the cylinder itself....it's angled?? also the marks (dings or divots) not a good sign.bottom line tough to tell in the pictures, I'd have to see the gun in natural light as well as under a bright light to see the finish within the actual blue...hard to explain, but this tells one a LOT as to the surface prep ,before it was dipped in the salts.............
so by these pictures and the nature of the guns era, its a crap shoot, but I lean to a finish that was overdone the first time out ,or redone by them before it left ( maybe even returned.......)they did lots of stuff to guns that they were not happy with the finish at the time...look at all the nickel (chromed) SC's............as well as their so'called "high polish" for the Supers...Ruger was NOT the best at finishing their guns, compared to all the other 'big names' back then...................