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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.
We need the issue number and the condition of the book to answer this question .
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.
As a general rule, by serial number.
Model 1911 commercial .45 with serial number 287589C was made in 1960. It was not a government issue.
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