As one who actually was issued 1911s over the first half of an active duty career that topped a quarter-century, I would respectfully disagree with the first and last statements submit that the second is irrelevant, and the third simply hyperbole.
That said, I remain a fan of Colt 1911s and will gladly pay the premium for a CMP 1911 just because it's a part of my -- and my father's -- personal military history. And I'm kinda a sentimental dude.
As for the OP's pistol -- looks great, wish him well with it.
Ive shot a bunch of GI guns over the years, most of them out of armories in the late 60's, early 70's. Most of them "looked" like they had been around (hence my question above), but they all seemed to work OK and shoot fine. They had finish wear, and looked nothing like the CMP gun above, with a nice new park job.
My brother in laws dad still has the 1911 he brought home from the Army Air Corp, and it looks great, almost new, and with very little finish wear. Having seen a few others that were in different places on the ground, and Im sure a lot of how they look depends on where they were and what they were doing. Assuming they werent re-arsenaled of course.
I carried a 1911 on a daily basis for about 25 some odd years. When I started out, the only real game in town were Colt, and USGI guns. Llama and Star were around, but they really werent in the game. The Llama was kinda close, the Stars, well, they looked like one. The Llamas were not well thought of. I had a Star Model P, and it was a great gun.
I only ever trusted the Colts and GI guns to carry, and of course, they too needed help as time went on, if you really wanted to trust them with anything but ball.
Funny thing back then was, they werent really all that popular or well thought of, and a lot of people thought they were inaccurate and unshootable. War stories, of all types, generally arent real reliable.
Personally, I think the best and worst thing that ever happened to the 1911 was Jeff Cooper. He showed a lot of people "the way", and that was good, but what followed production-wise, was bad.
I think at this point, its no longer a simple thing to have a 1911 "discussion". Its become too broad a subject to cover at this point, and to discuss things realistically, you need to break things down into categories, and go from there. Otherwise, youre really just having conversations about apples vs oranges.