Welcome to forum! Look forward to seeing your photos!

 

Should be some tomorrow. Today was a range day so tomorrow is cleaning day so I'll pull them out for a few photos. Both are old and one is somewhat of a mystery that I'm hoping to figure out. We'll see y'all tomorrow 😉

 

OK - here's one. Dad was a cop and he carried this on the ankle for backup for many years. As you might see in the photo this gun was chopped and when I tried running the serial# thru Colt I didn't find a match and came up with this. "NEW ARMY AND NEW NAVY MODELS (DA 38 AND DA 41 WITH SWING OUT CYLINDERS, MODELS OF 1892, 1894, 1895, 1896,1901 AND 1903) - SERIALS ON BUTT"

No Stampings on it except for the serial number hidden under the swing out cylinder and what's left of the stamping on the barrel. Love to hear thoughts and comments

 

Welcome from North Carolina.

 

Great to be here

 

Just an FYI - there is a New Members Intro section https://www.coltforum.com/forums/new-members-introductions.12/
Since you introduced yourself here, I don’t think a duplicate thread there is warranted, but the welcome messages may be more sporadic here.

 

New to the Colt group and after finding the revolver forum will be posting some pictures of my 2 old Colts ( revolvers) for show and tell. Just curious to hear peoples comments

Just an FYI - there is a New Members Intro section https://www.coltforum.com/forums/new-members-introductions.12/
Since you introduced yourself here, I don’t think a duplicate thread there is warranted, but the welcome messages may be more sporadic here.

Sorry but as a newcomer it was a little difficult navigating thru here with all the different groups. I'm still trying to figure out how to post 🤣

 

Welcome from Texas!

 

Welcome from Southern Illinois!

 

Your revolver is a Colt Police Positive Special.
This was a larger revolver then the Police Positive. The Police Positive had a shorter frame cand cylinder made for use with short cartridges like the .32 and .38 S&W.
The Police Positive Special was made with a longer frame and cylinder for use with cartridges like the .38 Special and .32-20.

Your Colt was made in 1922.
The original grips would have been hard black rubber with molded in checkering and Colt logo.

In 1927 Colt fitted the Police Positive Special with a 2 inch barrel and named it the Detective Special.
These were extremely popular with police and detectives.

 

Thanks for your input - I did find enough of the stamping on the barrel to tell that it was indeed the Police Positive. I would have to guess that even tho the grips have the Colt logo on them they got changed to the wood sometime over the last 100 years. Appreciate your knowledge on the oldie but goodie. She still shoots well too

 

Hi and welcome to the Colt Forum from N. E. England!

 

Welcome to the Colt forum from Western Pa! Dad had good taste . Your in good company on that one, there was a post a while back on Fitz altered DA's you may be interested in. Once you learn how to navigate this forum of course. Good luck!

 

Thanks! Great to be here. I have a pic or 2 of another oldie you might like coming soon

 

Ok so I had the good fortune to grow up as a fairly feral kid way back in the 50s and 60s. Imagine finding yourself as a 9 year old rummaging thru an old trunk in the attic of an abandoned carriage house and finding this. She was pretty rusted and would not work at all. Thanks Dad for the hours of work it took to clean it up. She's a little rough from pitting but now fully functional. Being that old tho I don't know if I'm brave enough to fire it.

 

Welcome to the forum from Florida!

 

Welcome from sunny Arizona.

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

Welcome to the COLT Forum from the Cradle Of Liberty...Pennsylvania

Enjoy Our Community Sir...

My Colt SAA...in .45 Colt...shown wearing Indonesian Sambar Stag Antler stocks

& a Gunslinger Leather Rig by Tom Hancock of Texas Gunslinger Holsters in Arlington, Texas.

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Welcome aboard.

I like your cut down PPS a lot, very cool.

I grew up shooting a single action like that. Looks like yours might have something going on with the action but after inspecting it and taking care of any issues, I wouldn’t be afraid to load up some fairly light black powder rounds and shoot it. All I ever found were old double barrel shotguns. Mine is in .45 Colt, made in 1880, inspected by David F. Clark, number 56545 if I recall correctly. I’d like to see some more pictures of the SAA. Can you post some more pictures?

Thanks.

 

By SSA I'm assuming you mean the Peacemaker?

 

Yes, SAA = Single Action Army (AKA Peacemaker). You spooked me there, I occasionally make the SSA typo no matter how hard I try not to, LOL. Yeah, I’m really curious about yours. If Army issue or civilian either way it’s early enough to be a very interesting variant. Is there a legible number on the side of the cylinder? Any inspector’s initials like DFC anywhere? Serial number? .44-40 or .45?