In 99% mint crisp new condition, we have an extremely rare, relentlessly sought after US. Property Marked, Colt model 1903 Pocket Hamerless .32 auto. This example is the most desirable variant of that pistol, one of the blued finish, WB cartouched (Waldemar Broberg) very early 1942 production pistols. According to the Colt Letter, this pistol was shipped just about a month after Pear Harbor, on January 10, 1942 to the Springfield Armory. Later that year, the pistol was shipped to England under the lend lease program. Some of these pistols went to the RAF and to senior officers and officials, but most of them were issued for clandestine use by the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, also used by MI5 and MI6 as well. As you might well imagine, the romantic connotations of these weapons being used in Nazi occuppied Europe By agents of the SOE cannot be understated. To find this pistol in this pristine condition is nearly impossible and one must wonder where such an early arrival to the war like this pistol was sent to; perhaps it was kept hidden away in case of a knock on the door from the Gestapo.
