Couple days ago I picked up a post - war (WW 2) Colt Official Police. I paid $500 for it. This one has a six inch barrel. Serial number gives it a DOB in 1947. For a few years after the war Colt put plastic grips on their handguns which they euphemistically called "Colt Wood". People hated them and threw them away by the ton. As a result they aren't very easy to find anymore. This one has them. I've taken them off because plastic gets brittle, but I am keeping them. So I now have three Official Police models and a pre-war Officer Model with 6" heavy barrel. I feel like I should be in a Bogart movie. I like the Official Police and compared to other Colt models (especially the Snake models) prices are still very reasonable. I also like that 38 Special revolvers don't seem to be as beat up as the magnums and 44/45 caliber models.

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The view of those stocks in your photos isn’t ideal, but to me those look a lot more like the war-time, solid chocolate-brown Commando stocks than the swirly reddish-brown post-war Coltwood. Attached are three images I borrowed from the Colt Forum a while ago for reference purposes (apologies to whoever’s copyright I’m disrespecting, but it’s for a good cause )

1. War-time brown plastic
2. Early swirly Coltwood
3. Late swirly Coltwood

The shrinking and cracking issue only applies to the post-war Coltwood, not the war-time brown plastic; those Commando stocks have held up better than most wooden Victory stocks.

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The ones that came with my OP are defiantly the all brown plastic grips. Good stuff to know. Thanks for that.

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