Fair warning:
The silver "inlay" is not an inlay, it's a photo electro-etching.
This is a form of "printing" a design on the metal using an electronic etching device.
The guns you see advertised in gun magazines from companies like "America Remembers" that commemorate some person, organization, or event are done with this photo etch process because it's a fast, cheap method of dressing up the gun without having to spend BIG bucks to have them actually inlaid and hand engraved by an engraver.
An actual inlay is done on a gun by using an engraving tool to cut a shallow hole in the surface of the gun and then undercutting the edges.
A lump of gold, silver, or platinum is positioned over the undercut hole and a mallet is used to hammer it down in place.
The soft metal spreads into the undercuts of the hole and locks the lump in place.
Then the engraver shapes and engraves the lump.
This is an expensive, slow, and difficult job that requires a master. One of the commemorative guns would cost many times the usual $2,000 they usually sell for.
So, to hold the cost down but add some decoration the photo electro-etch process is used to bond a very thin layer of material to the surface.
This etching is THIN and much wear or rubbing, ESPECIALLY with a metal polish will soon just rub it off, leaving a "shadow" where the precious metal etching was.
I strongly recommend you not use any polish or heavy rubbing.
Look for a jeweler's silver polishing cloth and use it VERY gently and VERY rarely.
Keep a coat of a good wax like Johnson's Paste wax or the even better Renaissance Museum wax on the surface to help prevent the silver from tarnishing.
NO CAR WAX, that will soon remove the etching.
Be aware that if you polish off the etching, unlike stamping or actual inlay work, it almost certainly cannot be restored.
