Unfortunately he threw out the box and paperwork years ago. Now aside from Colt telling me on the phone it was made in 1988 the friend I bought it from remembers getting it from his Son for Christmas of 1988. The one I found that bothers me is a GCNM in SS that Colt told me on the phone was made in 1988 but on the lookup tool it comes up 1995. I can see a gun being made in 1995 and being in the supply line and then sold in 1996. I got this almost new in the box with all the papers. A GCNM Enhanced I was told was made in 1996 comes up being made in 1995. Of the ones that are there are differences from what Colt told me on the phone and what is in the online lookup database. So that's the legit serial number as far as they are concerned and the gunsmith and I haven't a clue why that number was chosen, allowed to be used, or what it means.Most of the Colt 1911s I own are not in there yet. Regardless, it passed muster with ATF and DES. The gun was that way when he bought it from a private individual before I bought it from him. That's the best guess scenario the gunsmith can come up with and neither of us really have a clue. Back then, whenever that was, the gunsmith says they may have been allowed to re serial number the thing with their own serial number when the factory serial number was destroyed or obscured from either the refurbishing or plating process. Hence they may have ground the bejesus out of it to get the rust out of it before plating and lost the serial number. This pistol may have been rusted up pretty well before it was nickel plated. The nickel job was not very good either with, in some spots, rust coming through. According to the gunsmith, when it was nickel plated the methods they used to remove the factory finish was crude and a lot of details, like serial numbers, were lost or obscured from the metal. This 1911 was manufactured before 1926 and has been well used.
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