--UPDATE in post 14-- Colt letter ready for payment, but......

[handofzeus]

Back when the handgun ban was looming I decided to part with an inherited Colt 1911 from WW1. I think it was 1912 manufacture but have to recheck. I figured it would add to the value with a Colt letter and possible provenance. Just received the bill to be paid for $100 and am now sitting here on the fence. What's the point now? If I can't sell my property then the letter has no purpose other than to satisfy my own curiosity and possible bragging rights. Then pragmatism takes hold and looking at food and utility costs soaring and Christmas looming I find it difficult to entertain such a frivolous expenditure. Really torn on this one.

 

[can14]

Pay it, you may have a chance to export it
Someone contacts Colt about it, you will
look like a smuck

 

[okcorral1881]

Back when the handgun ban was looming I decided to part with an inherited Colt 1911 from WW1. I think it was 1912 manufacture but have to recheck. I figured it would add to the value with a Colt letter and possible provenance. Just received the bill to be paid for $100 and am now sitting here on the fence. What's the point now? If I can't sell my property then the letter has no purpose other than to satisfy my own curiosity and possible bragging rights. Then pragmatism takes hold and looking at food and utility costs soaring and Christmas looming I find it difficult to entertain such a frivolous expenditure. Really torn on this one.

I doubt it’s 1912, if it was from the Canadian Contract it’s a 1914. I would still get the letter, if the law changes eventually or as mentioned above if you ever export it, it will be easier to sell with the letter.
Ok

 

[OkayShooter]

Well you requested the service, pay them.

 

[.30/06 FTW]

Well you requested the service, pay them.

This.

Yeah like if they’ve already done the work for this and invoiced you you kind of have no choice. Do you want them to send it to a collections agency?

 

[handofzeus]

Well you requested the service, pay them.

It doesn't get printed until paid in full. Stilling sitting on the fence.

 

[handofzeus]

I doubt it’s 1912, if it was from the Canadian Contract it’s a 1914. I would still get the letter, if the law changes eventually or as mentioned above if you ever export it, it will be easier to sell with the letter.
Ok

Spot on. Checked the serial and it is a 1914 d.o.m.

 

[redbirddog]

Think long term...
I bet you never thought the long gun registry would be gone....

Think 5 or 10 years from now.

 

[9.3 Hunter]

Get the Letter ...

 

[bibatoad]

Get the Letter ...

We will be having a change in government in the not to distant future, all of this is about to go away. Be patient.

 

[cattabliss]

Tell em you'll take it after Xmas. Satisfy that curiousity.

 

[FatCatsDad]

If you $100 away from an empty fridge you should know what to do

 

[infidel29]

If it's $100 you can live without then pay it. If you can't afford it then hold off.

 

[handofzeus]

The letter finally came today. Opened and taped up by the the ever-vigilant CBSA. Keeping Canada safe from one sheet of paper at a time! Anyway, I seem to have one of the 1000 Colt .45s shipped to the Canadian Government via H.R. Brown in Quebec on October 31, 1914. What a neat piece of world history.