Colt 1911 made in 1913 questions

[Triggernumbetry]

Acquired new toy yesterday. Colt 1911 ser # 505xx rt. side of frame. Left side marked "united states property". I know that trigger, grip safety, hammer, rear site & main spring housing are correct. Right side of slide marked "model of 1911 u.s. army". Left side is 2 lines last patent date is Feb. 14, 1911. To the right of the patent info is the 2 line COLT'S PT. F.A. MFG. CO. above HARTFORD CT. U.S.A. The hammer, grip safety, thumb safety & trigger have traces of blue, rest of gun is a dull grey with finish basically worn off. I feel that the slide stop has been replaced because it is bright blue & thumb portion is checkered. Should thumb area of slide stop just have horizontal lines instead of being checkered? My main question is related to the grips. They are FULL CUT CHECKERED & as worn as the rest of the pistol. Keeping in mind military issue & 2nd year, could the grips be correct. Sure don't want to put new diamond pattern grips on a gun with this much wear. Lastly there is an "H" stamp on the breech area of the barrel. Any significance? THANKS!

 

[Jim Watson]

A blue slide stop on a worn gun SOUNDS like a replacement, but checkering is correct.
Contour of the bottom of the thumb pad is what differs from 1911a1.

I don't have anything that shows full checkered grips before 1924.

The original barrel would have had a P proof mark and an H inspector's mark over the chamber.

You got feelthy peechures?

 

[content]

Lol @ Jim....I was wishing for pics too....sounds like a nice 1911.

 

[bk42261]

Yeah,that would definitely be Gun Porn.PLEASE??

 

[Jim K]

A 1913 Colt would have the diamond type grips and a checkered slide stop. The horizontal cuts were WWII vintage. The final patent date (August 19, 1913), was added in 1914, at serial number 83856. It was for several features already in use - the manual safety, the three leaf spring, the spring tube, and the mainspring housing.

The H is the inspection mark of Francis L. (Frank) Hosmer, a civilian employee of Springfield Armory, who was assigned to the Colt factory for much of the early 1911 production; he left Colt permanently in 1925. The last pistol with his "H" was #710000, delivered to Springfield Armory on May 6. 1924.

Jim