Another stunner from the rack.
Before anyone gets on their *purist* high horse - it should be noted that the man who built this did so in 1946-47. Back when they were something like either &14.95 or $19.95 form the DCM among others.
My wife did an estate sale and the fella had been quite the Cop/Machinist in his day. When he was let go of the Army in '46, he settled back home Jersey and became a Cop. He had been a machinist before the war but changing things changes people and while he loved manipulating metal still, his heart was not in it as a vocation.
So, when time and money allowed he began to set up a home shop for building guns from scratch and re-building others.
When I came along, this 1918 beauty was in a home-made oak range box with a target .38 S&W and a Hi Standard target .22.... The original *3 Gun!* He also had a passel of competition medals spanning almost 20 years in all classes.
So what it is, is a fantastic example of old school bullseye 1911 and let me tell you - it is a stone JOY to shoot!
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Todd.