MINT 1937 Colt .45 Revolver

Seller: Clearly this revolver did not see service! Price: $4,495.00 Caliber: .45ACP Hand: Both/Ambi Serial #: 343661 Status: FOR SALE Date Added: 5/04/26 The Colt New Service is a large frame, large caliber, double-action revolver made by Colt from 1898 until 1941 & was adopted by the U.S. Armed Forces as the Model 1909 which went on to become the US Army Model 1917, (also known as the M17) which was created to supplement insufficient stocks of M1911 pistols during World War I. The Colt M1917 Revolver was a New Service with a cylinder bored to take the .45 ACP cartridge & the half-moon clips to hold the rimless cartridges in position. Later production Colt M1917 revolvers had headspacing machined into the cylinder chambers, just as the Smith & Wesson M1917 revolvers had from the start meaning the newer Colt production could be fired without the half-moon clips as this example can. The M1917s saw action again during World War II when it was issued to “specialty troops such as tankers & artillery personnel.” During the Korean War they were again issued to support-troops. The M1917s were even used by the “tunnel rats” during the Vietnam War. Clearly this revolver did not see service! It was actually a special order & sent as a shipment of just one gun to a high profile local philanthropist / businessman/ activist named Burton B. Doolittle in Middleton, Connecticut on March 22, 1937. Doolittle served but little can be found about this & he stayed in the US during the war, hence ...

MINT 1937 Colt .45 Revolver

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