My dad was no fool, and was happy to get it. They met in Tientsin just after the **** surrendered, and my uncle, a Marine Corporal who had just come from the battle of Okinawa, gave his 1911 to my dad, a Navy CPO - as a joke, saying he needed a real gun, not the pea-shooter M1 Carbine he had been issued. I find that odd, because the manufacture date is in 1943, and both he and his brother enlisted at the start of the war in early 1942 - my dad in the Navy, and his younger brother in the Marines.
#HOW TO CHECK INFO ON 1911 REMINGTON RAND SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER#
vs No., Bakelite grips, but the serial number maps to the range of the Union Switch & Signal guns. I have my dad's WWII issue 1911 A1, with slide marked Remington Rand, frame serial number prefixed with NO. hell most guys dont know that General Motors tooled up M16's during Vietnam. They seen the same if not more blood and sweat than either of the aformentioned but were far greater produced than the sewing machine toolers. These were great guns just as good as any Colt or Singer but unfortunately not worth as much. there were only "Blued" garrison officer guns, hard carbonized very rare never seen service and most never left the factory and early parkerisation which was done by fast high heat carbonization of the outer surface of the metal which resulted in a nice finish with a hard near nitrided surface of the metal. I quicky concluded they were idiots and didnt know their **** from a ford pinto. I have had a few so called experts tell me my guns didnt have original grips because they were "plastic" instead of colt like wooden grips. The Du Lite was the grip material reference more commonly referred to as "Bake Lite" its the same material used by General Electric in Fuse and breaker boxes since the late 1800's if you have a RR without the bakelite "plastic looking" grips subtract about $600.00 off the value.
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