2nd item: barrel with significant pitting, some pitting to trigger. Condition: 1st item: pitting evident on barrel, tip of hammer appears to have a partial loss, denting to one side of brass frame, top of one of wooden grip with loss. Short, high hammer, birds head butt grip. Barrel marking of 'COLT' partially obscured by pitting. 41 cal rimfire single shot, Standard model, serial number 3170 located on bottom of barrel hidden by frame and under left wooden grip. Checkered spur trigger and hammer, burl walnut grips, birds head butt. Barrel marked 'COLT'S HOUSE PISTOL / HARTFORD CT U.S.A' and flanked by Maltese crosses.

Bond Arms Ranger II O/U Derringer 45 Colt.

38 M&P Model of 1905 Revolver with Unmarked Sideplate. This is the Harrington & Richardson Automatic Ejecting Third Model, third variation top break revolver with no patent d. rimfire, 4 shot cylinder, serial number 2499. This is a handsome revolver that has matching serial numbers throughou. 1st item: Colt House Model Cloverleaf Revolver. Case Study: Carroll Cloar (Janu– April 10, 1993)Ĭolt House Model Cloverleaf revolver and Colt 3rd Model Deringer (2 items).Case Study: Anna Catherine Wiley (Knoxville, TN, 1879-1958).Case Study: Richard Jolley (Knoxville, TN).Case Study: Great Road Pottery of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.Items that are not a fit for Case auctions.

At the moment, I don't recall the serial numbers at which the change was made, but I can find out if necessary. 380 magazines, for instance.Īs to being 'drop safe', the later pistols have a 'shelf' on the hammer that will prevent firing if the gun is jarred. 380 guns appear to be identical, but they are not. Production was discontinued when wartime contracts were cancelled (1945-46), and never resumed. The more romantic association is to the OSS, which did obtain some of them. Many went to doctors and nurses, who were allowed to carry 'defensive' guns for protection of themselves and their patients, but others went to general officers (Eisenhower reportedly carried one under his 'Ike' jacket) and military criminal investigators. Production of those guns (in both calibers) continued through WWII, with wartime production going to the government.

380 caliber are modern collector terms Colt just called them Pocket Hammerless Pistols, a bit or a misnomer, as they do have hammers, just not visible ones.

Colt derringer serial numbers