Early Remington Rand

[Johnny Peppers]

Most here have already seen this one, but was ask for pictures of early RR and figured I might as well post them for those that haven't seen it.

This one shows the typical smooth Du-Lite blue finish, as well as a 1911 style slide stop. Remington Rand purchased unfinished 1911 style slide stops from Springfield Armory early in production. The barrel is a COLT .45 AUTO with large G. This is the 983rd Remington Rand.

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[Scott Gahimer]

I never grow tired of looking at nice examples. Thanks.

[mike radford]

I love that pistol.

Do we know how many barrels that Colt supplied and about how late of a serial number that a Colt barrel may come up in a Remington Rand? TIA.

[MinuteManMike]

My mid 1943 Remington Rand serial NO.1039250 in very good condition.
Purchased in a pawn shop on consignment north of Seattle for $650.00 in 2001.
The RR was inspected by the president of a local Colt 1911 club, he said "you have a nice all matching numbers Remington Rand 1911A1" and slapped it back in my hand!
I replied with a big grin... And its great fun to shoot too.

I'm grateful to show my 1911A1 along with the Johnny Peppers excellent and earliest Remington Rand 1911A1 that I have ever laid eyes on, outstanding history with that .45 Auto.

[Scott Wilson]

John,
I know that I have seen photos of that pistol before, but is it missing it's FJA? Maybe my eyes are blurry from all of this southern pollen. Anyway, I see good enough to recognize a fine early production Remington Rand.

[Scott Gahimer]

I think a lot of early Rem Rands have their FJA struck up high, and are somewhat covered by the slide stop. I don't recall about the specific position of the FJA on Johnny's pistol, but have seen others that way.

[Johnny Peppers]

As Scott mentioned, the early ones tended to be struck higher, plus they were considerably smaller. The photo shows that almost half the FJA is under the slide stop.

[Scott Wilson]

Thanks Johnny.

[Johnny Peppers]

The position of the acceptance initials also brings up the question of the acceptance procedure. It would seem logical that the markings would be applied to a pistol that had been through all the proofing, function firing, and then cleaned up for final acceptance. The pistol shown appears to have been disassembled when the final acceptance was done.

[DaveN]

Very interesting. What do the experts think?
Does this inspector use the slide stop as a guide to align the letters better?
Maybe even struck after the pistol is locked back knowing this would mess with collectors latter?
A creative mind at work maybe.