SOLD VERY RARE & IMPORTANT PRE WAR, 1937 COLT MODEL 1911/1911A1 TRANSITONAL US ARMY SERVICE PISTOL, 100% ORIGINAL AND CORRECT, VERY SHARP!
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IN 95-96% VERY SHARP ORIGINAL CONDITION, WE HAVE AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BLUED 1937 COLT 1911A1 US ARMY SERVICE PISTOL THAT WAS SHIPPED BY COLTS ON FEBRUARY 1, 1937 TO THE SPRINGFIELD ARMORY FOR THE US ARMY. THIS PISTOL IS 100% CORRECT AND ORIGINAL, IT HAS THE MATCHING NUMBERED SLIDE AND THE CORRECT POLISHED TOP COLT BARREL THAT WAS USED ON THE 1937 PISTOLS. YOU WILL ALSO NOTE THAT IS STILL MARKED “MODEL OF 1911. U.S. ARMY” EVEN THOUGH THIS IS TECHNICALLY A MODEL 1911A1. THIS WAS THE LAST YEAR THIS MARKING WAS USED. THE 1937 PRODUCTION GOVERNMENT GUNS ARE UNIQUE IN SEVERAL ASPECTS AND ARE A MUST HAVE FOR THE ADVANCED COLLECTOR.
IN 1924 THE US ARMY ORDERED 10,000 OF THE NEW MODEL 1911A1 PISTOL AND AFTER THAT NONE WERE ORDERED UNTIL 1937-1940 WHEN SMALL ORDERS WERE PLACED EACH YEAR GOING SPECIFICALLY EITHER TO THE ARMY OR THE NAVY. BECAUSE OF THE EXTREMELY LOW NUMBERS THAT WENT INTO GOVERNMENT SERVICE THEY ARE THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER US MARTIAL PISTOLS OF THE 2OTH CENTURY BY ADVANCED SERIOUS COLLECTORS.
THIS IS A TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE OF AN VERY RARE PRE-WAR 1937 ARMY COLT. ONLY 2,349 PISTOLS WERE MADE FOR THE GOVERNMENT IN 1937 AND JUST A HANDFUL STILL EXIST IN ORIGINAL CONDITION AND ONLY A VERY SMALL NUMBER THIS SHARP! THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY NICE EXAMPLE OF A VERY RARE PISTOL. I HARDLY NEED TO TELL YOU THAT THESE PRE-WAR MILITARY COLTS ARE THE ABSOLUTE APEX OF 20TH CENTURY MILITARY HANDGUNS. THIS IS A RARE CHANCE TO OWN AN ICONIC PIECE OF WWII HISTORY. ONLY A SMALL HANDFUL OF THESE PISTOLS EXIST IN THIS TOP CONDITION, ABSOLUTELY A BLUE CHIP INVESTMENT!
