Colt New Service with Possible Connection to LAPD (Hat Squad)
Guns International #: 100460789 Seller's Inventory #: 18080
Category: Colt Revolvers - New Service - .45 ACP Pistols
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Seller: Joe Salter com
Company: Down East Antiques - Joe Salter
Member Since: 9/10/10
First Name: Garrick-March-Jim-Joe
Last Name: Salter
State: New Hampshire
Zip: 03031
Country: United States
Phone: (603) 732-4000
Fax: (603) 732-4200
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Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
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About Us: Joe Salter has been in the Antique and Collector Weapons business for 60 years as both a collector and dealer. Our company is based in Southern New Hampshire and we have had an internet based store front for the past 20 years. We are federally licensed and deal in all types of firearms and related material.
Description:
Serial #324977, .45 ACP/Auto-Rim, 5 1/2" barrel with a fine, bright bore that has some very mild freckling within the grooves towards the breech. This is a 1926-made revolver that retains 90% plus of the original blue finish that has faded at the muzzle as well as along the exposed edges and also has a moderate turn-ring around the base of the cylinder. The revolver is marked chambered for ".45 Colt" which is common on .45 ACP New Services shipped before it became a standard chambering in 1933. The revolver also has numbered, Colt custom quality medallion grips and a checkered backstrap. The revolver is almost identical in configuration to (and numbered quite closely to) a known revolver shipped on March 21, 1928 to W.H. Hoegee Co. of Los Angeles for a Lt. Harry Hager (LAPD). The speculation is that this was representative of guns issued to the so-called "Hat Squad"; a group of detectives of "large stature", and a May 21, 2013 dated Colt letter accompanies the revolver which does indeed confirm shipment on September 24, 1926 to Cline & Cline of Los Angeles, CA (as one of 25 such guns in the shipment). This is a terrific example of a New Service revolver which could very well be a secondary LAPD issue gun. {Ref: "Colt New Service Revolvers" by Bob Murphy (1985); "Colt's New Service Revolver - 'A Particularly Strong, Heavy Weapon'" by Timothy J. Mullin (2009)} FFL or C&R
SOLD
Curio/Relic: Yes
Manufacturer: Colt
Model: New Service
Serial Number: 324977
Caliber Info: .45 ACP
Gauge Info: .45 ACP