1918 Colt 1911 w/questions

[Duane Hansen]

The Lanyard Loop Magazine would be too early to have come with your Colt 1911 Military pistol from the factory. I believe they stopped using them by the Military sometime in mid 1916. They (Colt) used them sometime into the 1917 time frame in the Commercial Government Model 1911 Pistols. And your pistol would have been shipped in the later part of 1918.

[Scott Gahimer]

The last M1911 Colt shipped with a lanyard loop magazine was s/n 125566, the last 1915 pistol. However, a lot of later pistols ended up being issued with lanyard loop mags, due to the quantity of them already in the system.

[Joefriday22]

Thank you for all of the information Sirs. I appologize for the very slow reply. For some reason I do not get email notification for replies to my topics on this forum and I never saw all of these replies.

I was just browsing through topics on here and came across this old thread. Up until just now I was very happy with this pistol (ignorance is bliss). I'm disappointed now that I know that the finish is not original.

Best,
Rob