Colt New Service Canadian WW1 Issue

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Colt New Service Canadian WW1 Issue

  • Licensing Category: Restricted
  • Maker: Colt
  • Model: New Service
  • Caliber/Gauge: .455

  • Description:

    SN 92278 is a WW1 issue Colt New Service in 455 Eley caliber .  This Colt is mechanically sound and shows a bright excellent bore.  Otherwise ,this piece is overall grey with areas of pitting and shows replaced wood grips.  The back strap shows a stamped issue date of January 1917 gun #95 and M.G.C. over 9.  We assume that it was for the 9th Machine Gun Company from the 3rd Battalion. This piece rides in a Canadian modified holster for machine gun crews. See page 99 "Canadian Military Handguns" by Clive Law. No condition but an example of a New Service haht saw actual service in WW1 and was so marked.