Here's something to fuss at me about.....Colt Officers ...w/ Factory letter mistake!

Locust Fork

Check this out. There is NO WAY this was ever an Officer's model.

This has a 2" barrel that says "Official Police"...which is a rare bird in itself.

This was a "one gun" shipment from Colt, sent to a person (not a store) so I believe this was built like it is from the factory....using what they had and just logged out as being an Officers model.

I'm sure there are people that know a LOT more than I do who can tell me more about this....but those are my thoughts.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1043481454

mrs102

Officer model frames have adjustable rear sights. Official Police and Officer models ran serial numbers together in that period. I'd say historian got that one wrong.

Locust Fork

https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11435027#Comment_11435027

Exactly....we spoke with the people at Colt about it, they spent a full day trying to sort out why this is logged out as an Officers model, but couldn't find anything in their records other than what is on the letter. I'm 100% certain this is a factory error on their paperwork.

truthful

Factory letters are not always the proof of things that we expect them to be. I have several letters on on old Winchesters from the Cody Museum that are grossly in error. One lists the caliber of an 1894 as 44-60, a cartridge that won't fit in that model gun. Another lists the data for a model 1873 when the gun in question is an 1876. I've pointed them out to Cody and have received apologies for those that were just shoddy research. Unfortunately, there are others in which the original hand-written factory records are grossly incorrect .

mrs102

We've experienced that conflict here in the forums a few years ago with the Winchesters. There were some "hurt feelings".