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Impossible to answer without a detailed description and the serial number.
Impossible to answer without a detailed description and the serial number.
Earlier copies have a serial number on the cover. If there's no serial number, then it's a later issue.
A Colt semi-automatic .45 government issue with that serial number was made in 1919.
Based on proofhouse.com with that serial number, it would have been in the first year of issue, 1908
The U.S. did not issue any $1 silver certificates dated 1953.
One sn to a weapon.
We need the issue number and the condition of the book to answer this question .
Model 1911 commercial .45 with serial number 287589C was made in 1960. It was not a government issue.
As a general rule, by serial number.
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1936