![]() ![]() Not all of the pre-1919 military M1911 frames have the heart-shaped cutouts, so a lack of them doesn't eliminate the possibility it is a scrubbed military frame.īut if it does have the cutouts it is almost certainly a scrubbed Colt military M1911 frame with a commercial Colt Government Model slide. to Nov., 1914 ( Only 5000 pistols in this serial number range were shipped to Canada.) Caliber. If it has heart-shaped cutouts it is a Colt M1911 frame. 1) Colt M1911 Canadian Contract: S/N C5400 to C16599 Sept. One interesting thing to do would be to remove the grips. If I had to guess, I would say it is a scrubbed military Colt M1911 frame with a hand-stamped new serial number. There are a lot of Colt slides riding on Essex frames out there, being sold as 'Colt'.Īs far as I know, Essex Arms didn't make any frames that didn't have some type of finger relief cuts behind the trigger like the post-1923 Colt frames.Īlso, why would someone scrub off the Essex Arms markings and serial number?Īnd look at the font, style, and location of the Essex serial number compared to the OP's pistol.Įven if it is an Essex frame - which I doubt - the serial number has been altered = illegal. I would not trash the frame, it could be an Essex frame which is still not nearly a Colt, but is not illegal to have either. I break mine out from time to time and run a few mags through it, and smile knowing I’m keeping that history alive.It does not look like a Colt frame to me. That’s a fine weapon, and being a Colt adds to the value from what I know about them. Hard to prove things with these guns, just marks that are consistent. There’s no way of knowing that they were originally issued, but talking to a guy that deals with them, he said that it was consistent with a gun that had been in combat service, as they all would have been within the era issued. I have found them listed in the Clawson book, here is what Clawson shows about X numbered 1911s: X1000-X1178 179 pistols. He claims it has be re serial numbered and that number is R101. ![]() In Hallocks.45 Auto Handbook, they are said to be replacement numbers for frames that had their serial numbers rendered illegible by the sandblaster during arsenal overhaul. Looking at buying a Colt 1911 from the gunsmith. I bought a 1944 RR 1911A1 that came with the original tanker holster and three mags, all of which had different codes stamped. Colt 1911 Value Serial Numbers Rendered Illegible. The magazines also can have a stamp, but I can’t recall what they were or the meaning. nib graduating class 5 inch ' barrel eugene, or. ![]() ![]() army pistol 1943 45 us 6640 5 inch ' barrel tinley park, il 60477: used: : 915.00 : 1911 series 80 colt combat target u.s. 45 acp ithica wwii military m1911/a1 ithaca gun company 1911a1 colt u.s. Whether is was originally issued with that gun, I am not sure. .45 colt colt 1911 military pistol florence, or: used. The P I think is a proof mark, the HS is “High Standard” from what I’ve been told, and is what you want. ![]()
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