Although no rebuild marks seen, this pistol has a blued frame and what appears to be a correct 'Parkerized' The 'looks new' bright and shiny blued. Overall finish is about 85, with no rust or pitting. It is fitted with a proper blue finish barrel marked with the "P" proof on the left side and "HS", indicating High Standard manufacture, on the right side of the lug. Serial number indicates manufacture by Colt in early 1918. It has the checkered stamped trigger, checkered hammer with narrow spur, checkered thumb safety, serrated slide catch, serrated arched mainspring housing with nine grooves and Keyes Fibre grips with the narrow reinforcement ring around the screw holes, mold numbers 23 and 27. Atwood with a "P" near the magazine release. The gun has been in storage since that time and was never used.
I have the original sales paper work from the depot showing the sale of the gun as used with matching serial number.
This gun was purchased from the Tokyo U.S. The left side of the frame is stamped with "FJA" the inspector mark for Frank J. Hi, I have a Remington M1911A1 gun produced in 1943 based on serial number info. ARMY" in front of the slide stop pin hole. The right side of the frame is stamped with an Ordnance Wheel cartouche behind the grips, "UNITED STATES PROPERTY" over the serial number behind the slide stop hole and "M 1911 A1 U.S. U.S.A." and the "P" proof is marked on top centered between the ejection port and rear sight. The left side of the slide is marked with the third type legend "REMINGTON RAND INC./SYRACUSE, N.Y. It is correctly marked for a Remington produced pistol, and has a barrel by High Standard, who was known to produce barrels for Remington. According to sources the last pistol manufactured by Remington-Rand was numbered 2,465,139, this pistol being numbered 2,445,999. This is a 1911-A1 pistol made by Remington Rand in 1944 during WWII. It still retains over 98 of its original grey/green parkerized finish. This pistol is just about unfired condition with only very minor traces of edge wear from storage. It also has the FJA inspectors stamp on it. It has the proof marks on the slide, frame and barrel and they appear to be the same size. I have looked it over very carefully and they have not been removed it was just never stamped with any. They not only produced the most pistols, between 875,000-900,000, but also helped develop manufacturing methods to speed up pistol production.
This is an example of a late 1945 production Remington-Rand Model 1911A1 pistol. 45 automatic manufactured by Remington Rand of Syracuse New York. The gun does not have any serial numbers on it anywhere. Based out of Syracuse, New York, Remington Rand produced M1911A1s on contract for the US Government alongside others such as Colt, Singer, and Ithica.