Well guys I got her! Pretty dang nice lookin' too. This is the way this one is equiped.......satin nickel finish(Colt Guard?), blued slide release, trigger, and grip safety, Pachmayr wraparound grips with the lip at the bottom. Now for the bad(?)news, as far as being original. The sights, I'm pretty sure, are not original. They are MMC, fixed, with a vertical white slash on the front sight, and a white "U" shape rear (like a Glock). It looks like the magwell was bevelled, not bad lookin' either. And lastely, the safety has been replaced with an ambidextrious, extended low profile type. The best part is the safety is made my Armand Swenson, its marked on both sides with A.D. Swenson Fall Brook Calif. I know of Swenson and how he was one of the first 'smiths to start buildin' 1911s back in the 60s. What's his status these days, I swear I remember hearin' he passed away?
Also, if anyone can check some lists for me, I'd like to know when it was made. The SN is 8278BXX. Thanks!
One more thing, the grips don't have any medallions but do have thumbrest and the Swenson safety looks to be stainless, its shiny anyway. And the barrel, bushing, and recoil plug are blue also.
After finally gettin' to see it and talk tradin' he tells me he did buy it used, but hasn't shot it himself since he got it about 20 years ago, in about the late '70s or early '80s. The previous owner didn't have it long, and either didn't fire it or fired it very little. He was the one that had modified it and also the reason there is no box. It still looks brand new, the only thing I don't like is there are what I can only describe as small flakes, or spots, on the right side of the slide, mostly near the muzzle. It looks like its actually in the finish, not on it. I tried to remove them, but I didn't want to try anything too abrasive because I didn't want to harm the finish. Any ideas what it might be?
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