Nickle Plated 1911 Colt 45

bookumdanno

With stag grips, RAF / Cross Sabers engraved on both sides. Excellent condition, accurate, clean shooting, no jams.
What's it worth?

rufe-snow

Nickel plated means it's not factory original. It would be classed as a "shooter". Value would depend how it was reworked. I've seen some p**s poor plating jobs in the past where bubba has used a belt sander for prep, prior to plating. Without quality photos no way it can be priced accurately. $300 to $600 would be my WAG, without photos.

givette

"Priced As A Shooter"

What that phrase means, is that the collectors won't touch the gun..and they're the ones willing to part with considerable money to purchase a firearm. If you price the gun in the collector category, it won't sell. If you really want a sale, then the value quoted above is reasonable. A "shooter" will be buying it. Best, Joe

perry shooter

I concur no collector value might have some BLING value. why not just keep it and shoot it.

EDIT it will be very easy to ascertain if this is factory finish The crossed sabers most likely depict the fact that this is a LEND LEASE pistol shipped to England to help in the war effort. If you give us detailed close-up in focus pictures of the writing on both sides of the slide and also a picture of the serial number we can tell for sure. barring that if you will write out the EXACT writing on both sides of the slide then we can tell if it is a military pistol or civilian model Yes colt did make some nickel civilian model pistols bu I would be willing to bet this is NOT one of those . Civilian pistols had at least one letter in the serial number and military models only had numbers a few also had a W in the serial number civilian slides were also roll stamped with different writing.

JohnnyBGood

Depending upon which variation you have it could be factory nickel, as Colt offered that finish on the Government Model. Also, not knowing your level of expertise on firearms, it might be some other type of bright finish. With the RAF / Crossed sabers it could be some kind of commemorative. Probably not worth a million buxs, but don't accept too quickly that Bubba got hold of it and its only value is as a shooter.

As already noted, pictures would help.

John

hjheidrich

I am new to this Forum and a little uncertain as to procedure. I have been looking for a WW II or older Model 1911 Navy and don't really know where to start. My main collecting is in Randall knives, many ivory and fossil handled. Ideally, I would like to trade for a Colt, but am just looking to locate one to consider. Where should I start?

nmyers

Since you are new to the forum, you are probably unaware that the appropriate way to ask a question is to POST A NEW TOPIC.

This particular forum thread concerns a question asked by bookumdanno about his nickle plated 1911. He only gets 10 responses; by throwing in your question, you "hijack" the thread & may prevent bookumdanno from getting all possible responses.

Neal

rufe-snow

quote:Originally posted by hjheidrich
I am new to this Forum and a little uncertain as to procedure. I have been looking for a WW II or older Model 1911 Navy and don't really know where to start. My main collecting is in Randall knives, many ivory and fossil handled. Ideally, I would like to trade for a Colt, but am just looking to locate one to consider. Where should I start?


It would be best to start a new thread regarding this subject, as Neal suggests. In the meantime you might check this link out. It describes a number of W W I & W W II Colts that were delivered to the U.S. Navy. Click on the thumbnails for information & data.

http://coolgunsite.com/pistols/navy_page.htm

hjheidrich

My appologies for the trespass, Bookumdanno.