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1922

Colt Pocket Positive .32 police, 1st. issue (1922) 3 1/2" bbl & box

1922 Colt catalog

1922 Colt catalog

Colt Pocket Positive .32 police, 1st. issue (1922) 3 1/2" bbl with correct box

 

Colt Pocket Positive .32 police 1st. issue (1922) left side

This Pocket Positive caliber is marked 32 Police ctg. so it is for .32 Colt Police Positive or S&W ammo.  Grips are checkered hard rubber with COLT in the oval.  Barrel is 3 1/2".  This First Issue has a "knife blade" front sight and was in production from 1905 to 1927 per the Colt 1928 catalog. 

 

The serial number 105913 shows a mfg. date of 1922 confirmed by the Colt factory letter and factory database online.  Last patent date is 1905.  Total production was 130,000.

 

Colt Pocket Positive .32 police, 1st. issue (1922) 3 1/2" bbl markings

Colt Pocket Positive .32 police correct ammo box

Barrel is marked:.32 Police Ctg. Colt revolvers roll-marked ".32 Police Ctg." are chambered for the .32 S&W Long and .32 Colt New Police cartridges, they can also use the cartridges sometimes called ".32 Police Positive" which are the same cartridge as the .32 New Police cartridge.

 

Colt factory letter

Colt factory letter close-up

 

Revolver was shipped from Colt to: 

John Jovino Gun Shop N.Y. Mob connection

 

This box, which did not ship with this revolver, does not have the serial number on the bottom.  It was apparently shipped to Zurich, Switzerland to a gun dealer by the name of W. Glaser, Waffen.  It measures 8 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.  And sports a top label for "American Manufacture."  I do not  know if the top sticker is from Colt or not.  The Zurich dealer "W. Glaser" sticker shows a business date from 1866 to 1936, three years before the start of WW3 in Europe.   'Waften' in German, means 'weapons' and 'Sportwaffen' is 'Sports Weapons'.  The box ended up in an antique mall in middle America in 2022.

 

Colt Pocket Positive .32 police, 1st. issue (1922) 3 1/2" bbl with correct box label

 

Colt Pocket Positive .32 police, 1st. issue (1922) 3 1/2" bbl box with revolver

 

Box bottom Colt Pocket Positive .32 police, box with unusual box sticker

 

W. Glaser, Zurich sticker Colt box interior with labels

 

Special instructions paperwork

Special instructions-2Special instructions-3

Colt 'Special Instructions' paperwork was in this box

 

colt pocket positive pamphlet-1 colt pocket positive pamphlet-2

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1907 paperwork for the Colt's Pocket Positive

 

 

 

 

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