Does anyone have any info on these marks found on a COLT 1911 1917 marks are on slide and frame. :confused:
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Does anyone have any info on these marks found on a COLT 1911 1917 marks are on slide and frame. :confused:
Are those not UK inspection marks?
Commercial Proof. UK
I couldn't find them at all...looking in the wrong place I expect. So this one may have been a pick up of some description and then sold into the public after the war...?
British commercial London Proof mark.
Hello Sergio,
As said before, It's a British Proof Marks.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...hhdxgozy-1.jpg
Mmmmmmmm. I suggest that your booklet is somewhat out of date if it suggests that the CP mark is the '....definitive black...... barrels' from 1637. But to be honest, some of the proof marks cannot even be identified by the UK proof houses. So they suggest that they reproof them again, at your risk and cost!
Well, It's quite close from the picture what your thought?
http://www.nramuseum.org/gun-info-re...blue-book.aspx
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...ple07j1e-1.jpg
The point I'm making Mike is that while the pistol dates from the 20th century - as in 1911, the booklet you show describes the proof mark as something relating to black powder shotguns and muzzle loaders! Unless it's ME that missing something
:red face: Sorry Peter I misunderstood the sense, you're right there is something amazing to find such stamp on this kind of pistol, have you seen that before? :)
It is quite a common mark but your book says it's a mark from the 1600's!!!!!!!
I just don't think it's quite the same mark.
Definitive proof mark of London proof house under 1954 rules of proof.
That makes sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by green
As Peter said, very common mark, I have seen 1911's with both Birmingham and London proof marks in the past, thousands of them must have been through the Proof Houses over the last 70 odd yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by Mikecp
Just trying to further my education. Does that proof mark mean it's a Lend - Lease 1911 sent back to the United States? If I remember my readings right, all firearms in Britain had to be proof marked for export too. Am I right in assuming that's what it is, or is it an acceptance proof mark?Quote:
Originally Posted by green
It could have been a bring back or a trader from the war years. Won in a poker game by a soldier...it just ended up there.Quote:
Originally Posted by RazorBurn
Possibly, but as said, thousands of 1911's will have been through theQuote:
Originally Posted by RazorBurn
Proofhouse's in the last 70 odd years, until 1997 they were popular among pistol shooters in the UK and many additional examples that passed through the UK will have been proofed too.
The "London Armoury" on the Commercial Rd in East London were building Colt 1911s using surplus parts, they had a running advert in Guns Review advertising them throughout the 1980s.
These would have all been proofed at the London Proof house which was on the same road.