Well, my Royal Master project is getting cleaned up nice. I want to get the headtube area nice and clean before it goes to powdercoater. This way, he can just mask it.
Turns out that there seems to be 2 colors on it. Red (crimson) underneath and a white layer on top of that. It has pinstriping on the toptube, seattube and downtube. You can see the red underneath the pinstripe under the white.

But here are the pix of the headbadge after some exacto knife and steel wool. Looks like brass with raised design. Its very nice.