UPDATE: Help - Colt 1909 .45 LC - Original or other maker? Photos added.

[gollum257]

I have one it is as identified only it has a T on the crane & it is not marked US Military under the barrel but it is a USMC gun.

 

[PALADIN85020]

Xringdistroyer,

If you can locate a copy of the 2003 Gun Digest, the feature article, illustrated in color, titled "Issue 45s of the 20th Century" (which I wrote) has chapter and verse on the M1909 Colt. You might want to check it out.