1860 Army Type I Conversion

[reno]

I was told by a well informed man that the orginal 1860 Conversions when new had silver plated trigger guards and that it would wear off, and that's why they are brass looking when they are older. I have studied and read alot on  all the Conversions, and know a few had either sliver plated or nickel trigger guards, but I saw very few 1860 Armys, almost all had the brass guards. Anyone else out there have any information, as I sure would like to here from you. There's a lot of you out there that really know you firearms.
Thanks again,
Reno

[Pettifogger]

When you asked you just said ASM conversions.  You didn't say what model and "conversions" covers original C&B guns and guns assembled as cartridge guns using up old C&B parts.  Colts came pretty much anyway the purchaser wanted.  BUT in general the 51 series had silver plated trigger guards and backstraps.  The 60 series had steel backstraps so those were for the most part blued.  The trigger guards were brass.  On the majority of the 60s sold to the government the trigger guard was plain brass.  On the civilian 60s they were silver plated.  Bottom line is anything you want is "correct."  As I noted do you really want to spend the time, effort and money to de-plate the triggerguards on an ASM?  Only you can answer that question.

[reno]

Thanks again, Pettifogger, I should have made it clearer I was talking about 1860 Armys. Seems there should be an easy way to strip the plating off as they say it wears off and is so fradgal, but I have no idea.
Thanks again Pettiefogger.
Reno

[nativeshootist]

Just let it wear off on its own, sure might take a year or so depending how much you use it and how much abuse it gets.