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Colt Model 1905 45ACP SN:731 MFG:1906

  • Caliber: 45ACP
  • Era: Pre-War
  • Finish: High Polish Blue
  • Serial Number: 731
  • Shipment Type: Foreign
  • Shipped To: Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Mfg. Company London Agency
  • Year: 1906

This Colt Model 1905 was shipped to Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Mfg. Co's London Agency in London, England on May 10th, 1906 in a 20 gun shipment.  

The top of the slide is inscribed "Cogswell & Harrison Ltd. 144 New Bond St. & 226. Strand London."  Cogswell & Harrison was a manufacturer and dealer of firearms in the UK.  It was common practice that pistols that they imported they would mark as such.