US Navy Victory cartouche

[madcratebuilder]

This Victory came my way and it has the faint remains of a DOD cartouche on the frame. I have not been able to find any info on this particular marking. Anyone see this before?

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[browningautorifle]

Were those stamps not an ink stamp?

[Johnny Peppers]

I think in the late 1960's some of the rebuild facilities started using a paint DAS stamp to indicate rebuild rather than using a metal stamp. Some of the late SA and RIA NM .45's had the stamp.

Looks like the pistol wore a set of S&W Magna grips for a while.

[Bruce McAskill]

That might be one of the revolvers issued to one of the DoD police departments that were used on military bases and installations.

[A square 10]

what caused the marking on the grip above the scales ? it looks as if it wore a much larger grip at one time-for a long time

[browningautorifle]

Like Johnny said, it probably had a large set af targets on it.