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Colt factory: 1 800 962 2658............
Blue Book of Gun Values.
By calling or writing to Colt Mfg. Co,. in Hrtfd,CT
You will have to call Colt since you did not provid the serial number.
Could not find a Colt frontier scout with serial number 56599P, but a Colt frontier scout with serial number 56599F was made in 1959.
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It's under the cylinder swing near the barrel.
The Colt Frontier Scout with that serial number was made in 1965.
all colt SAA pistols have serial numbers. If the serial number was filed off then the gun is Illegal to have, and without serial can't tell when made...............
Yearly production records of most firearms are kept by serial numbers. The serial number is key to the firearm's age.
You can find a list of Colt M1911 and M1911A1 production serial numbers at http://www.coolgunsite.com/pistols/colt%20production.htm. Going by the numbers in your question (7071), it looks like you have a M1911 that was made for the Navy in 1912, the first year of production.