
Colt Id
#1
Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:54 PM
#2
Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:56 PM
Jr
#3
Posted 28 January 2004 - 12:00 AM
#4
Posted 28 January 2004 - 12:15 AM
Jr
#5
Posted 28 January 2004 - 12:21 AM
#6
Posted 28 January 2004 - 12:42 AM
#7
Posted 28 January 2004 - 01:18 AM
#8
Posted 28 January 2004 - 01:29 AM
I would, as John JR suggests, buy a receiver and barrel upper assembly complete with the cutts compensator from Doug Richardson and have Doug engrave it as a 1927AC complete with matching serial numbers. He may also be able to help you with the correct paddlel type selector levers.
You would then have a great looking gun!!
#9
Posted 28 January 2004 - 01:57 AM
#10
Posted 28 January 2004 - 02:00 AM
#11
Posted 28 January 2004 - 02:08 AM
#12
Posted 28 January 2004 - 02:11 AM
Doug makes really great dummy receivers, barrels, compensators, some colt pattern wood, all to a really great quality and although he recently got behind with his work due to totally failed eyesight


He posts on this forum and he had a post a few days ago about Thompson drawings so go back a few posts and find him and e-mail him via the forum and ask him to send you his catalouge ($3 plus postage) which is great.
.His address is Douglas W Richardson, 2100 McReynolds Road, Malibu CA 90265
You should get a lot of help with you projet from this forum. There a lot of really great guys on it and they have a huge amount of knowledge.
Regards :

Murray
#13
Posted 28 January 2004 - 02:21 AM
Gordon Herigstad's book, "The Colt Thompson serial numbers lists Colt serial number 4023 as a 1927AC while Tracie Hills book just lists it as San Quentin prison so I really dont know. Most of the serial number around that number are listed as 1928's .
Some of the others on the forum may be able to assit you far better that me.
Regards
Murray
#14
Posted 28 January 2004 - 02:21 AM
I already have a catalog from doug but I have to find it again. The price for the reciever with the engraving costs around $800! I'm going to have more money in this "dummy" gun than any of my real ones!
#15
Posted 28 January 2004 - 02:23 AM
#16
Posted 28 January 2004 - 07:16 AM
Are there any letter code marks visible at all in the where the internal parts fit or any markings under the rear grip? The serial number is certainly in the right range for a Colt gun. I remember seeing it on Ebay also and it was hard to tell from the photos the seller provided whether it was a Colt frame or not. I seem to remembr though that the serial number on the frame was stamped in the opposite direction of that of the Colt made guns. I could be mistaken, however, but pictures of the frame would certainly help us assist you with it's origin.
Is the Full Auto marking on one line or two and is there a period after the AUTO abbreviation?
#17
Posted 28 January 2004 - 01:13 PM
If it is a Colt with serial number 4023, then it does have to be a 1927 model. It would still have the full auto/single pivot, but the engraved full auto letters would have been ground off and a rectangular shaped box would be left there. If somewhere along the line San Quninton, or some other entity, coverted it back to full auto, they most likely would have restamped in larger than original size letters the word "AUTO". The cops would then replace the 1921 parts with 1928A1 parts to make it fire full auto again. The Colt 1927 frame I am aware of was selling for $2,600, but it was still a perfect example maintaining the Colt semi auto parts, no full auto military ones.
#18
Posted 28 January 2004 - 01:17 PM
#19
Posted 28 January 2004 - 01:22 PM
#20
Posted 28 January 2004 - 01:26 PM
If the "FULL AUTO" is on one line, and not as
FULL
AUTO
and if there is a period after the NO (as in NO.), then it doesn't seem to be a Colt. It may be an AO frame. Are both the "N" and the "O" caps?.