Quote Originally Posted by Glacier-Blue View Post
Thanks again Jim; your assistance is greatly appreciated.
For those looking at the slide, it was on a frame serial# 712611, shipped to Springfield Armory on 5/21/1938.
Thanks for looking.
Your 1938 Colt would have been shipped with its matching numbered slide. Colt stamped the gun's serial on the slide until sometime just before ser# 1,140,000. The gun would have been blued and the slide you show is parkerized. Is the frame parkerized as well? The slide has been replaced at sometime and you may have a typical arsenal refurbished pistol.