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Colt Pocket Positive .32 Factory Inscribed "Newark Police No. 203" - .32  Police Cartridge, Serial Number 54020

Colt Pocket Positive Serial Number 54020 (ca. 1911) -  .32 Police caliber with 3 1/2" barrel, blue finish with fire blue accents and checkered hard rubber Colt stocks.  Backstrap is factory inscribed "Newark Police No. 203"

Colt Pocket Positive Serial Number 54020 (ca. 1911) -Factory letter confirms the caliber, 3 1/2" barrel length and engraved inscription "Newark Police Dept No 203" on the backstrap of the revolver as well as shipment to E.G. Koenig Sons, Newark, New Jersey, June 1, 1911 as one of a shipment of 48 guns.

 

 

Marked on top of barrel:

COLT'S PT. F. A. MFG. CO. HARTFORD, CT. U.S.A.
PAT'D AUG. 5, 1884 JUNE 5, 1900 JULY 4, 1905.

Top of frame of Pocket Positive 54020.

Left side of barrel marked:

P ocket. 32 POLICE CTG.
ositive.

Right side of barrel, color case hardened ejector rod head.

Close-up view of recoil shield.

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