SOLD ULTRA RARE COLT 1905 USMC REVOLVER .38 CALIBER

IN ANTIQUE GOOD CONDITION WE HAVE A VERY RARE AND SELDOM SEEN COLT 1905 USMC REVOVLER IN .38 LONG COLT. THERE WERE 812 OF THESE TAKEN INTO THE MARINE CORPS AND THIS IS NUMBER 119. THERE WERE AN ADDITIONAL 900 OR SO MADE FOR THE COMMERICAL MARKET BUT THEY WERE NOT USMC MARKED AS THIS PISTOL IS. THE REVOVLER IS FULLY FUNCTIONABLE BUT IT IS ABSOLUTLEY NOT A SHOOTER. THESE THINGS WERE PRETTY FRAIL WHEN THEY LEFT THE FACTORY NEW AND THEY SHOULD BE RETIRED TO A COLLECTION. THESE PISTOLS WERE PROCURED WHEN THE MARINE CORPS WAS A VERY SMALL BRANCH OF SERIVCE, LESS THAN 10,000 MEN. TODAY, THESE REVOVLERS ARE NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IN ANY CONDTIION. WHILE NOT A MINT GUN THIS IS MUCH NICER THAN SOME OF THE OTHER SURVIVING EXAMPLES THAT I HAVE SEEN.