In 1926, when the USAAS became the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC), the sequence continued unchanged. Magazine is a proper 1911 Colt magazine, but not correct for a gun this early. United States Army Air Corps 27-243, a Curtiss O-1B Falcon. Bore is excellent for a 100 year old pistol that likely saw a good amount of action - I'd rate it an 8/10. It is a little difficult to rate as there is patina coming through the finish throughout the pistol, but the actual finish loss isn't too bad. The finish on this pistol is somewhere in the 70-80% range. This pistol is fitted with the correct style early Colt all blue barrel that is stamped with the early sideways stamped provisional letter "H" on the rear face of the sight hood with a single number "5" sub-inspector's mark on the underside in front of the barrel lug. This pistol has all the early features, such as the early, half-moon front sight blade, with the rounded notch rear sights, short, wide checkered hammer spur, long smooth face trigger, short grip safety, flat mainspring housing, early pattern 1912 checkered thumb safety and checkered, diamond walnut grips as noted above.
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Ordnance inspector with the "UNITED STATES PROPERTY" on the left side with the smaller sized serial numbers "No.7325" (with serifs) on the right side. The right side of the frame is stamped with the circled "WGP" inspector mark of Major Walter G. NAVY", with the early and correct sideways stamped provisional letter "H" directly above the firing pin stop. The right side has the rare Navy markings of: "MODEL OF 1911. It was widely used in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The pistol served as the standard-issue sidearm for the United States Armed Forces from 1911 to 1985. The left side of the slide has the standard Colt two line, two block address and patent marks with the circled Rampant Colt logo behind the serrations. military procured around 2.7 million M1911 and M1911A1 pistols during its service life. So their survival rate in original unaltered condition is extremely low, since they were in service for the next 80 years.
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Army markings) after 1915 as the Army, who was the Ordnance proponent for service pistols wanted standard markings and serial number placement throughout the Model 1911 production. Navy marked slides produced in total and this was changed (to standard U.S.
There were a total of approximately 15,037 of these early style, U.S. Navy marked slides and early style small serifed lettering and serial numbers are probably one of the most difficult of the standard issue Model 1911s to acquire. Navy contract pistols with the early U.S. 3/29/17 - This is a very early and very desirable Colt 1911, produced in 1912 and issued to the US Navy.
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