![]() ![]() There are no close SRS hits but even if there were, those could have been the Colts with duplicated serial numbers. So most likely, it did ship to Raritan in late November 1943 but I just can't prove it. I searched the available records it should have been in as well as all those after and came up empty. There was a whole block of 1,208,xxx guns that shipped in late '43 and early '44 so what's up with these 6?Īnyway, back to the OP's gun. According to every book and list, those should not have existed for five more months, but here they are. However, there are a few like 861,xxx and 865,xxx that should have gone out way sooner. Notice that most of the guns are 911,xxx-916,xxx which makes sense. ![]() In this case, Raritan in late November is an excellent guess and may very well be true but we can't prove it.īelow is the last page of shipment 78 that went out on 11/5/43. So all you can do sometimes is make an assumption. From this statement, I believe all slides in this range are so marked. Many pages are missing and a large portion that exist are either incomplete or too blurry to read. G Grunt Registered Joined 758 Posts 6 Clawson states in his book that Ithaca slides were marked 'Model 1911A1 U.S.Army from about serial number 909000 to about 914000'. Sometimes you get lucky and find an early number, but most times you don't. Ithaca was a mess early on and their manufacturing problems and non-sequential shipping means that until they started shipping in sequential order on 5/24/44, all bets are off as far as when a gun might have shipped. Thanks for the kind words, NamInfantry! JComer reached out so I thought I'd try to help.įirst let me say that The Apprentice and DDRode are both sort of right. ![]()
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