IN 96% VERY SHARP ORIGINAL CONDITION, WE HAVE AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BLUED 1937 COLT 1911A1 GOVERNMENT PISTOL THAT WAS SHIPPED BY COLTS ON MARCH 19, 1937 TO THE SPRINGFIELD ARMORY FOR THE US NAVY. THIS PISTOL IS 100% CORRECT AND ORIGINAL, IT HAS THE MATCHING NUMBERED SLIDE AND THE CORRECT SMALL G COLT MILITARY BARREL.
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 NAVY COLT. ONLY 2,349 PISTOLS WERE MADE FOR THE GOVERNMENT IN 1937 AND ONLY 836 WERE SLATED FOR THE US NAVY. MOST ARE SITTING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PACIFIC IN THE BRINE FILLED ARMS ROOMS OF NAVY SHIPS LOST IN BATTLE. 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 WW2 US NAVAL HISTORY. ONLY A SMALL HANDFUL OF THESE PISTOLS EXIST IN THIS TOP CONDITION.
