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Originally Posted by WCCPHD
Jim,
It does have British stamps, but not government owned marks. It began life as a .455 and had the cylinder face shaved to make it a .45 Colt.
I will include some other photos that show the marks and the cylinder face.
I have since found a replacement top screw and removed the hideous "wondersight."
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Ok, I see them now, very nice and discreet.
Oh yeah, great improvement w/o the hideous tacked on sight, albeit some use those and will pay for them.
Appears to be a commercial that entered GB thru civilian channels. It might be one commercially shipped to Wilkinson Sword in England. Or an American distributor and then exported. Sure doesn't look like it went to war. Maybe an officer's purchase since they had to supply their own sidearm.
The serial # however doesn't seem to correspond to any commercial shipments in the books. So a letter would reveal its provenance and be extremely interesting! Letters are currently only taking about 2 weeks.