**First Year Production Pre-War Colt Super 38 Pistol in French Fit Case
Sale 2030 - Arms, Armor and Militaria
Oct 23, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$6,000 -
8,000
Price Realized
$9,600
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
**First Year Production Pre-War Colt Super 38 Pistol in French Fit Case
.38 Super. 5" barrel. SN: 1768 (Mfg. ca.1929). Blued finish, checkered walnut thumb swell target grips. Single action semi-automatic magazine fed Browning designed tilting barrel pistol. Right side of slide roll marked COLT in large letters, followed by SUPER .38/AUTOMATIC in two lines, followed by the {Rampant Colt} logo, with the left side roll marked in two lines: COLT'S PT. F.A. MFG. CO. HARTFORD, CT. U.S.A./PAT'D APR 20, 1897, SEPT. 9, 1902, DEC. 19, 1905, FEB. 14, 1911, AUG. 19, 1913. Rear face of slide with matching serial number 17/68 in two lines under the firing pin stop plate. Pistol is equipped with a checkered arched mainspring housing, checkered short trigger and checkered wide spur hammer. The rear sight is a KING/PAT. marked windage adjustable notch with a pinned front blade with a red plastic dot. A semi-circular angled cut in the top of the slide behind the rear sight provides reflective illumination of the front dot. Includes a single two-tone magazine COLT SUPER/38 AUTO marked magazine. The pistol is contained in a French-fit leatherette covered wooden case with a purple lining.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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