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Description: | COLT AUTOMATIC CALIBRE 45
GOVERNMENT MODEL
JJ
Colt prancing horse trademark
PATENTED APR.20.1897.SEPT 9.1902 DEC.19, 1905.FEB.14,1911.AUG.19,1913 COLT'S PT. F.A. MFG. CO. HARTFORD. CT. U.S.A.
one of 300 shipped to the London Armoury Company on 30 March 1916, at a period when most production was for the Russian Government. The 'JJ' mark is a LAC inspection mark. London proved. Owned (with FIR 575, a 1900 Browning pistol) by Lt. Colonel Baines, who was involved in the critical battle of Nonne Bosschen in November 1914, during which he fired 52 rounds from his revolver without a miss (some fired left handed, following a severe wound to his right arm) during fierce close combat with a Prussian Guards Regiment. The IWM accession register is in error in indicating that this Colt was used during this battle, as it was not shipped until 1916, and the text of his article in the Regimental Chronicle for 1932 makes it clear that he was using a hinged frame revolver.
high lustre blue finish | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Co, Hartford, CT, USA | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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