thankfully pot metal is easily spotted especially now the things are old. Pot metal or "Mazak" (the same zinc based rubbish which 60s/70s dinky toys and some car door handles are made of) is garbage, can deem the horn unrepairable if a key breaks or needs work, it doesn`t bend well for adjustment too as its fragile and it also crumbles with age. Yeah - what didn`t help was the "pot metal" era for keys, it cast an uncertainty over which B&Hs were to avoid because of it - as far as I know from the research I did, most if not all the wooden Regents have pot metal keys (apparently they moved to plastic about the same time as proper key metal) - I don`t know about the Emperor and Imperial but it`s possible that some pre-60s ones, especially made during or just after WW2 could have pot metal keys too, I`ve never heard of a 1010 with pot metal and wouldn`t expect too either.
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