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"I,ve Been Hunting A Carbonia Blue Model For A Long Time. Anybody Got One For Sale ? Prefer Unfired...."
Guy at a gun show in Richmond before Christmas had what appeared to be a matched pair but I had to leave to drive back to NoVA. Intended to go back the next day but couldn't make it. Was going to go down to another Richmond gun show this weekend in hopes be'd be there but the "snowmaggedon" was so bad my jeep is still stuck in the parking lot behind my townhouse. Maybe next month...
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02-07-2010 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by
userids
Very nice! And a reasonable price, IMO. I paid $900 for mine, used, a couple years ago. I like your grips, I dig 'em with the dark stripes in the grain.
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Originally Posted by
rondog
Yep. The first model, the 01911 with the WMK suffix, is known as the Carbonia Blue finish, like my pistol above. Colt promised a limited run of them at either 4000 or 5000, not sure which. At that number, they stopped as promised, but the pistols were so successful they changed to the 01918 WWI model in the Black Oxide finish, with no such promises of limited production.
I got very lucky, and found a guy on another gun board that was selling the pistol above for $899. Turned out he worked in the office building across the street from mine! I just walked over there with the cash, and came back to my office with a new Roscoe, boxes, and all accessories. Those are actually the photos that he sent me before I bought it, my photos of it all stink.
The finish on the O1918 is still a "blued" finish, just darker almost black. There are also several improvements over the O1911, namely in the parts quality. Some of the items on the O1911 were way off of what were orginally used including the trigger, the O1918 version took care of most of those issues and the fit/finish seems to be a tad better on reviews as well. I love mine, has one of the best factory triggers I have ever used. And all of them have been hand assembled by a Colt gunsmith, not just the first few thousand.
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