Colt 1911 Navy (1st Year Delivery!) 110 Years Old

This is a superb Colt 1911 Navy #3075, a first year production pistol with early features including rounded rear sight, short hammer, dimpled magazine catch lock, first variation magazine with exposed floorplate. This gun was included in the 3rd shipment to the Navy on 5/1/1912, addressed to the U.S. Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY. The total Colt 1911s earmarked for the Navy, shipped between 1912-1915, 1918-1919 was 23,613 pistols.

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More information on the classic 1911:

The M1911, also known as the Colt 1911, or the Colt Government, is a single-action, semi-automatic, magazine-fed, recoil-operated pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. The pistol's formal designation as of 1940 was Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 for the original model of 1911 or Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911A1 for the M1911A1, which was adopted in 1924. The designation changed to Pistol, Caliber .45, Automatic, M1911A1 in the Vietnam War era. Designed by John Browning, the M1911 is the best-known of his designs to use the short recoil principle in its basic design.

The pistol was widely copied, and this operating system rose to become the preeminent type of the 20th century and of nearly all modern centerfire pistols. It is popular with civilian shooters in competitive events such as USPSA, IDPA, International Practical Shooting Confederation, and bullseye shooting. Compact variants are popular civilian concealed carry weapons in the U.S. because of the design's relatively slim width and the stopping power of the .45 ACP cartridge.