It is quite a common mark but your book says it's a mark from the 1600's!!!!!!!
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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.
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?
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.