Welcome to right this moment’s Photograph of the Day! The Colt Mannequin 1902 was designed by John Browning, produced by Colt’s Manufacturing Firm, and launched in 1902. It was a modification of the Mannequin 1900 and it was obtainable in three variations: Navy Mannequin, Sporting mannequin, and 1903 Pocket Hammer Mannequin. All of them used.38 ACP cartridge. The Navy Mannequin had an extended grip, lanyard loop, and slide stopper and it had a manufacturing run of about 18,068 models between 1902 and 1928. The Sporting Mannequin which existed from 1902 by 1907 with roughly 6,927 models was smaller and lighter. Nonetheless this gun was not extensively accepted by armies as a consequence of its weaknesses in addition to US forces’ choice for greater caliber firearms after preventing the Philippine-American Battle. The best order from a navy supply got here from Mexico who bought eight hundred pistols within the 12 months nineteen hundred and eight. This mannequin contributed to the event of semi-automatic handguns within the USA that resulted within the manufacture of Colt-1911 at later occasions.
“It is a very high quality instance of an early manufacturing Colt Navy Mannequin 1902 business contract semi-automatic pistol as manufactured in 1905. This was the subsequent mannequin manufactured after the “sight security” mannequin that finally result in the event/adoption of the Colt Mannequin 1911 pistol. These had been manufactured from 1902 to 1929 as they had been a extremely popular, early semi-automatic pistol. Most noticed heavy use by regulation enforcement and gangsters. Since it’s the navy mannequin it has the sq. finish butt with the lanyard loop on the decrease left rear aspect and sporting fashion spherical hammer spur. The slide has the usual manufacturing facility markings: “BROWNING’S PATENT/ PATENTED APRIL 20.1897. SEPTEMBER 9. 1902” adopted by “COLT’S PATENT FIREARMS MFG.CO./HARTFORD, CT.U.S.A.”, with the Colt Rampant Horse emblem behind the slide serrations. The suitable aspect is marked behind the ejection port “AUTOMATIC COLT/CALIBRE 38 RIMLESS SMOKELESS” and in entrance of the ejection port “MODEL 1902″.”
Lot 3569: Colt – 1902 Fascinating Early Manufacturing – Colt Navy Mannequin 1902 Semi-Computerized Pistol. (n.d.-ac). Rock Island Public sale Firm. {photograph}. Retrieved Might 27, 2024, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/element/70/3569/colt-1902.
