You mention that the pics you have of it were taken a while back?
Do you plan to take some new pics now ?
Hi Bill:
Thanks for your kind words. The pics that were mentioned to be decades old were those taken by a former owner of the communicator when he visited the house of TOS Set Decorator John Dwyer. They took a few photos of it positioned beside Mr. Dwyer's own communicator which he had continuously owned from the time of TOS. John Dwyer eventually sold his one through Profiles In History and it is now in the Paul Allen collection on display at the Sci Fi museum in Seattle. So those pics of my communicator next to the Dwyer one are the ones mentioned to be very old. At the time of that photography, Mr. Dwyer and the former owner thoroughly compared the two pieces against one another and Mr. Dwyer indicated that he was confident the communicator now in my possession was authentic. Only the photos of it beside the Dwyer communicator are old (but still quite a decent resolution). The other photos of it in the same article on my site are modern day. It did have texture at one time; but was sanded to be fairly smooth. The textured comms reflected light in a way to give their shells a distinct splotchy / grainy appearance with noticable "pin pricks" of light even at significant distances from the camera - quite different than the reflection patterns observed with the smoother shelled communicators used in TOS. I did discuss that as well, with photos, on my site.
Very Best,
Gerald