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US Ordnance marked Official Police revolver...


Len S
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Here are some pics of a revolver I recently acquired. it's a Colt Official Police probably made in '43 and marked with the US Ordnance flaming bomb. It's one of about 5,000 purchased by the US during the early part of the war. I've read that Uncle Sam wasn't happy with the high cost per unit of these guns so Colt went back to the drawing board and the Official Police underwent a metamorphosis and emerged as the Colt Commando and having shed its commercial blueing and fine checkering on some small parts.

 

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Oh yeah, I’d letter that revolver...that’s a beauty....made in the pre-Commando days I’d bet. That’s a great-looking Commando too..! :)

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