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I would suspect an old cleaning
I agree with the cleaning. It doesn't appear to be too harsh, possibly more of a dip than a scrubbing but definitely something has been done.
I do like the strike of this one. Very few of my CBHs have the clasp where you can see what it supposed to look like and the eagle claws are pretty nice too.

(I needed a curl base 2 with a knobbed 2 for my Dansco. And here it is!)
