Buddy spotted this in a local pawn . When he asked the guy the price . the response was " your offer? "
Anyway here is what I see :
The "property of markings " appear to be factory " THE NY appears to be an add on
Would be a nice piece since that location was about 10 miles from where I lived
anyone can give me any info?
Thanks in advance

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Its a Colt!

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Mike 2796
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The pony in the grip medallion and the lack of a shroud around the extractor rod are key indicators of COLT manufacture. There may be a COLT forum that could give you more details.

If you write to COLT I think that you can get a history letter but I think they charge $1,000 or something like that.

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James Redfield
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It appears to be a Colt Army Special or Official Police model. Hard to tell without having it in my hands. If the cylinder locks up properly it is probably worth $400 to $500.

What does it have on the barrel, if an Army special it would say so, if official police same, if nothing probably a replacement barrel. Looks like it has older stocks and a newer barrel given the sight.

Thanks all I jumped at the idea rather that consider the complete picture I feel stupid at the moment

It looks like either an Army Special or a pre-WW2 Official Police.
The Bbl looks like a Post WW2 Official Police bbl from the style of the front sight as harvester1 pointed out.
Doesn't look like any side markings on it. Factory replacement perhaps? (Colt's SAA factory replacement bbls differ in markings from the production line installed bbls.)

The hammer profile says it's an Army Special or pre-war O/P.
Ser# would tell you.
The Army Special was discontinued in 1927 or 28. The O/P took it's place and just just continued on.
The Army Special was sold with black hard rubber grips. The O/P when it came out pre-war had the wooden grips as shown. But the H/R grips were/are fragile and cracked easily. Most were replaced especially on PD guns.

I'm guessing the engraved property marking was done at the Remington Works right there in Ilion. But it may have been a special order done at Colt. Only a 'letter' from the Colt Historian may tell that detail.

Interesting gun. Ilion Village put together a Volunteer Police Unit right after Pearl Harbor for security and other extra Village Police work. They kept it in service into the early 50's. Might be a revolver bought for that purpose.
They had a regular Village PD as well. Still do AFAIK

The front sight could be ramped post-factory, which happened a lot. But the stocks are definitely not the wooden ones you could order for the Army Special, but the later OP style. So my guess would also be pre-war or early-war OP. The inscription is unlikely to be factory; too elaborate and individualistic.

Attached for illustration: AS from 1924 (lettered with the wooden stocks), OP from 1942.

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Thank you for posting, not all of us know as much about Colts as we maybe should.