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IN 94% ORIGINAL CONDITION, 100% CORRECT AS PER CLAWSON, EXACTLY THE WAY IT WAS WHEN IT WAS SHIPPED FROM COLT’S TO SPRINGFIELD ARMORY ON OCT 10, 1941, WE HAVE AN ORIGINAL EARLY PARKERIZED  MATCHING NUMBERED SLIDE ROBERT SEARS INSPECTED COLT 1911A1 .  THIS PISTOL IS 100% CORRECT WITH THE PROPER FACTORY ORIGINAL SMALL G PROOFED COLT BARREL AND THE PROPER COLT HOLLOW BACK GRIPS.  THIS IS A VERY CLEAN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE LAST OF THE PRE PEARL HARBOR COLTS, ONE THAT SAW THE ENTIRE WAR FROM START TO FINISH. THIS GUN WAS USED THROUGHOUT THE WAR ITS NICE BUT A LITTLE SALTY, THE BORE IS NICE BUT NOT MINT.  ONLY 34,000 WERE MADE IN 1941  THATS ABOUT 20% OF WHAT WAS MADE IN 1943 ALONE.  VERY HARD GUN TO FIND, MOST WERE USED UP IN THE WAR AND ALMOST ALL THOSE THAT MADE IT TO THE OTHER SIDE WERE REWORKED AFTERWARDS.