SOLD VERY RARE PRE-WAR BLUED, 1940 COLT 1911A1 US ARMY SERVICE PISTOL, CSR INSPECTED & SHIPPED 11-26-1940, MATCHING & 100% CORRECT, VERY SHARP!

IN 95% ORIGINAL VERY ATTRACTIVE CONDITION WE HAVE A VERY DESIRABLE & RARE BLUED 1940 PRE WAR PRODUCTION CSR INSPECTED  COLT 1911A1 US ARMY SERVICE PISTOL. THE PISTOL IS TOTALLY MATCHING AND 100% CORRECT AS PER CLAWSON. THIS CHARLES S. REED INSPECTED PISTOL WAS PART OF A SHIPMENT OF 500 GUNS THAT WERE DELIVERED TO SPRINGFIELD ARMORY ON NOVEMBER 26, 1940.   THE PISTOL IS TOTALLY MATCHING AND A TEXTBOOK COMPLETELY ORTHODOX EXAMPLE.  THE BORE IS EXCELLENT AS WELL.  IT IS ONE OF THE VERY LAST OF THE CSR INSPECTED PISTOLS.  

IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THIS GUN HAS WOODEN GRIPS AS MANY OF THE 1940 PRODUCTION GUNS HAVE THE EARLY PLASTIC COLT ROCK GRIPS. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT LATE PRODUCTION 1940 GUNS HAVE THE EARLIER, WOODEN GRIPS, AS USAGE OF THE COLT ROCK GRIPS WAS SUSPENDED DUE TO THEIR FRAGILITY.  IN MID 1941 THE USE OF WOOD GRIPS WOULD FINALLY END WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW “ COLT WOOD” PLASTIC GRIPS WHICH WERE VERY DURABLE.

ANY BLUED US MARTIAL 1911A1 IS QUITE RARE AND NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IN THIS ORIGINAL CONDITION.  MOST WERE LOST IN THE MAELSTROM OF WAR AND MOST OF THOSE THAT SURVIVED WERE REBUILT POST WAR.  THIS PISTOL JUST CAME OUT OF THE WOODWORK AND HAS NOT BEEN IN A COLLECTION AND IS A GREAT FIND WE FEEL FORTUNATE TO GET.  I CANNOT OVER STRESS  HOW RARE ANY 1937-1941 BLUED MILITARY PRE WAR COLT 1911A1 PISTOL IS, ESPECIALLY IN THIS FINE COLLECTABLE CONDITION; THEY ARE AT THE APEX OF COLLECTING.

Scotty’s Collector Insights…pre war blued military issued Colts are just about impossible to find in Collectable condition and the prices are usually brutal.  This is a fantastic buy at the price being offered and a rare chance to get into one of these for under 10k.