WTS/WTT Sold lock it up please

[Jgalloupe]

Sold .

 

[Coup d'etat]

Looks like you have a Colt Commercial frame with an early Colt Argentine Contract slide and barrel.

Coup

 

[Jgalloupe]

Slide is matching with the frame. Both have the same serial numbers. But yes also sold to Argentina like many during the year 1933 then imported back to the US with additional barrel and slide numbers.

 

[Coup d'etat]

I was thinking it was a "Policia de la Capital" pistol but it just misses the serial range. Interesting.

 

[Jgalloupe]

Yeah, I agree. I was reading that there were additoonal private purchases by the Argentine govt. Of around 2000 pistols or so after the original contract within the serial numbers you are mentioning. Besides the slide and Barrel markings and a circled "RA"(republica Argentina) marked on the firing pin stop, there is no other markings from them. Unless it was covered up by the refinishing. Seen a few images online of similar pistols and sometimes the police markings could appear to be faint.

 

[Coup d'etat]

That's an awsome early Commercial 1911A1. I'm tempted to trade you a kidney for it ?

 

[Jgalloupe]

Thanks. By your profile pic im willing to bet it is not your own and possibly seasoned.?

 

[Coup d'etat]

Would you like to come over for dinner one day? Bring the Colt.......

 

[Tophog]

Slide is matching with the frame. Both have the same serial numbers. But yes also sold to Argentina like many during the year 1933 then imported back to the US with additional barrel and slide numbers.

How are the slide and frame 'matching? 4 digit vs. six.

 

[Jgalloupe]

The 4-Digit is not the serial number. It is more of a unit count for the Argentine government. Older Colts have the serial number inside of the slide in the firing pin housing. That number along with the frame number is the serial number.

 

[Tophog]

The 4-Digit is not the serial number. It is more of a unit count for the Argentine government. Older Colts have the serial number inside of the slide in the firing pin housing. That number along with the frame number is the serial number.

Weird.

My '46 Argentine Colt has matching 5-digit numbers on the frame, slide and barrel. The frame ONLY has those numbers, outside or in. Except I haven't looked under the mainspring housing.

The slide is stamped in Spanish, 'Ejerjito Argentino', 'D.G.F.M.' and the Argentine crest.

 

[Coup d'etat]

DGFM is not an actual Colt made by Colt, but a licensed copy made by the Argentinians. Those numbers will all match, frame, slide, barrel. FMAP is the name of the Argentine company that made licensed copies.
DGFM: Dirección General de Fabricaciones Militares (General Directorate of Military Industries; Argentina)

"In 1945, after construction of the state-owned "Fabrica Militar de Armas Portatiles" (F.M.A.P.), Small Arms Factory in Rosario, Santa Fe (250 miles from Buenos Aires), assembly of Sistemas was transferred to the new plant and another 88,494 pistols were produced through 1966".

 

[Jgalloupe]

It was a history lesson finding out the specifics of this colt and the differences between it and the sistemas,Post ww2 colts. and other types around the same time frame. Shout out to JohnColtGuy snd Gullwing for pointing me in the right direction. A few shots of high volume flammable alcohol is owed to them.