Originally Posted by Gene L

Back in 73 0r so. I had two Colt .25s. I'm almost certain they weren't from long ago, but I don't know. There wasn't collector interest in them in the place where I lived. They were in great shape, didn't look old. I sold both of them to the same guy for not much money.

A few years after I sold them, Colt stopped selling them over here. And not so long after that, I saw at my LGS .25s that were so far as I could tell, identical but labeled from some foreign maker, maybe Spanish or Italian? and they were cheap. Not like a Rohm, maybe a little more than a Titan. I can't remember exactly where they came from but they looked exactly like Colts. From a distance, anyway. Same walnut grips, even had the drilled holes for where the medallions would have been, but the holes were empty. They were around for a couple of years.

But it made me wonder if whoever supposed to manufacture the Colt .25s (assuming FN?) I had were farmed out by another manufacturer and marked distributed through FN as Colts. Or if someone bought up FN/Colt overruns after they quit exporting them here. They were pretty cheap and anonymous w/out the medallions. Wish I'd read the lettering on the slide more carefully. There might be a story there.