Does anyone know about the possible year of manufacture?
MOCOLT
Does anyone know about the possible year of manufacture?
Better check that serial number again. I don't remember a Python # starting with "N". PN yes. D*
While on the subject of Colt's Python serial numbers.
I have long since held the belief that many of our older, long-lived American companies had no inkling; the interest, curiosity, scrutiny, and attention to the smallest detail, their products would someday be subjected to.
Colt's serial numbers for instance. They were merely a factory control system, never meant to mean anything to the end user except as a bookkeeping aid. . Only in the later years of firearm identification was it even considered necessary for law enforcement.
Even now, there is little to prove that a gun's serial number is any way, a deterrent to crime.
It only connects a gun to the last legal buyer.... But, that's outside my lane.
There are several many Colt's serial numbers you can punch into Colt's site for reading numbers; that will bring up as many as 6 or 7 different models with the same numbers.
I'm not criticizing Colt at all.
I can't imagine the old management at Colt would have dreamed how highly revered some of their models would become. Certainly it's doubtful the little items like the finish of grip screws, sight retention pins, which way the "Rampant Colt's" tail is swishing, and all those little things we try to learn, would not have been taken into account.
In a nut-shell, I do not think old timers at Colt's would have thought a six-shooter would be hailed by many as a true work of art on the one hand, and the finest of working tools on the other.
I have long since held the belief that many of our older, long-lived American companies had no inkling; the interest, curiosity, scrutiny, and attention to the smallest detail, their products would someday be subjected to.
Colt's serial numbers for instance. They were merely a factory control system, never meant to mean anything to the end user except as a bookkeeping aid. . Only in the later years of firearm identification was it even considered necessary for law enforcement.
Even now, there is little to prove that a gun's serial number is any way, a deterrent to crime.
It only connects a gun to the last legal buyer.... But, that's outside my lane.
There are several many Colt's serial numbers you can punch into Colt's site for reading numbers; that will bring up as many as 6 or 7 different models with the same numbers.
I'm not criticizing Colt at all.
I can't imagine the old management at Colt would have dreamed how highly revered some of their models would become. Certainly it's doubtful the little items like the finish of grip screws, sight retention pins, which way the "Rampant Colt's" tail is swishing, and all those little things we try to learn, would not have been taken into account.
In a nut-shell, I do not think old timers at Colt's would have thought a six-shooter would be hailed by many as a true work of art on the one hand, and the finest of working tools on the other.
Right from the beginning in 1836 Colt stamped serial numbers on their guns. One reason was Colt quickly became THE supplier of pistols and other arms to the US military and they demanded serial numbers.
In the 1890's American law enforcement began issuing guns to police and they also needed a way to track the guns.
Colt's practice was to start all new models at serial number 1 and progress up.
That's why you can have any number of Colt rifles and pistols with the same serial number.
Most gun makers followed the same standard.
Only in the mid-1960's after the Gun Control Act that mandated each firearm have a unique serial number did Colt and all other gun makers begin to add letters to numbers to make unique serial numbers.
In a nut-shell, I do not think old timers at Colt's would have thought a six-shooter would be hailed by many as a true work of art on the one hand, and the finest of working tools on the other.
I think you're wrong there.
The Colt pistol became the modern equivalent of the soldiers and aristocrats sword. For thousands of years the sword was both a work of art and the best personal weapon available.
Due to the highly decorated engraved guns Colt offered, and the fact that they were both the choice of the military and professional gun users, Colt fully understood that they were making works of art and the best weapon of the day.
As works of art Colt's are the most collectable firearms in the world, and as examples of the industrial revolution, they were engineering marvels as machines.
In the 1890's American law enforcement began issuing guns to police and they also needed a way to track the guns.
Colt's practice was to start all new models at serial number 1 and progress up.
That's why you can have any number of Colt rifles and pistols with the same serial number.
Most gun makers followed the same standard.
Only in the mid-1960's after the Gun Control Act that mandated each firearm have a unique serial number did Colt and all other gun makers begin to add letters to numbers to make unique serial numbers.
In a nut-shell, I do not think old timers at Colt's would have thought a six-shooter would be hailed by many as a true work of art on the one hand, and the finest of working tools on the other.
I think you're wrong there.
The Colt pistol became the modern equivalent of the soldiers and aristocrats sword. For thousands of years the sword was both a work of art and the best personal weapon available.
Due to the highly decorated engraved guns Colt offered, and the fact that they were both the choice of the military and professional gun users, Colt fully understood that they were making works of art and the best weapon of the day.
As works of art Colt's are the most collectable firearms in the world, and as examples of the industrial revolution, they were engineering marvels as machines.
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
