1943 Remington Rand 1911A1.....really taking a shine to this piece!

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I picked up this early '43 Remington Rand as a shooter so I wouldn't be tempted to use my really nice 1911A1 Colt.

So....I started looking at the parts on her, mainspring housing, slide stop, safety, nomenclature on slide, acceptance/proof stamps, Keyes grips, original mag
This 1911A1 is dead stock original with nice patina, may be original faded Dulite or touched up then I looked inside.......The High Standard barrel is likely the original in really sweet condition.
The great thing about this Remington Rand is that I don't have a problem shooting quality .45 out of it and it's not going to hurt the value of this piece at all, and it shoots awesome.

Respect to the GI who carried her as a tool of war, but who also took the time to look after her inside!
Cheers Paul

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Du-lite Remington Rands are interesting variations and a lot rarer than the common parkerized type III Remington Rands. They also saw a lot more combat in WWII and few were surplus'd.

Here's a couple others;

1942 Type I. Very early production with Colt supplied barrel, WWI surplus M1911 slide stop supplied to Remington Rand from Springfield Armoury, variant hammer, hardness test marks, Singer tooling MSH and milled trigger, hand fitting, du-lite, and 'NEW YORK' slide address. Nicknamed the 'poor mans Singer' because while these are elusive to find they are not nearly as expensive as a Singer for U.S. based collectors when they do come along.

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1943 Type II. Still early production but with modified 'NY USA' slide address and all Remington Rand manufactured parts with the exception of the barrel. Still du-lite bluing at this point of production.

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Thanks Steve...Nicely done! A couple of beauties!
Confirming mine is the Type II for sure...I can just imagine how 1911A1's would have looked after 2 or 3 years of Pacific service in one of those leather US holsters! Ouch...
 
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Confirming mine is the Type II for sure...I can just imagine how 1911A1's would have looked after 2 or 3 years of Pacific service in one of those leather US holsters! Ouch...
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Definitely. On the U.S. forums a fair number have returned from the Pacific extremely salty. Some survived in remarkable condition somehow though!

Early Ithaca's and all US&S had du-lite finish also.

Cheers,
-Steve
 
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