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As much as I love nickel plating, these bare copper Empires are quite attractive!!

I agree, interestingly I have another No. 62 Short that is copper and having this earlier one insures me it wasn't a previous owner's swap.  

Fun fact, the seller of this No.62 sent a really nice & long letter trying to gleam some history on her father's steam engine - its a real mystery to them.  Anyways, not only was her dad a NASA Engineer, her mom was one of the NASA "Computers" - just like in the movie "Hidden Figures".  Just to think this little No. 62 was around all these historical NASA staffers is so cool.  Though that might be me being a big space nerd ;-)