There's not really a gold tinge, that's my camera phone more than anything I think. The body is a semi-matte silver ... maybe with a faint hint of reddish/copperish/gold in the right light. The camera did sort of overemphasize that. It has stumped everyone I've shown it to.
I am going to get a new female XLR socket and see if I can get it working. Aside from missing the XLR connection, everything looks sound. No corrosion, no broken windings around the element. It just looks like someone yanked out the connection.
I've never wired up a mic before although I have done some electronics work. There are four solder points on the back of the element. One has the stub of the white wire sticking out, two are hooked up to wires that run up into the microphone element itself (blue and black) and I'm assume the fourth point used to have the red wire attached. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'll just need to hook up two wires ... positive (pin 2) to where I assume the red wire originally was and then negative (pin 3) to where the white wire used to terminate. Where, if anywhere, would the ground wire (pin 1) from the XLR socket be connected? A couple of broken wires came out when I opened it up, a red one and a white one. There wasn't anything I could say was a ground wire. Looking at some schematics, I'd venture to say the ground and the negative could be wired together. Like I said, I've only got a (slightly better than) rudimentary knowledge of electronics.