Thought I might stop in here and share this find. I was looking for a WW II era 1911A1 to go with my other allied wartime firearms and awhile back happened upon this particular pistol in a local pawn shop. It's a early production Remington Rand Type 1 manufactured between Nov 1942 and March 1943. At that point they stopped production, retooled and changed the markings on the next run. Note that on this one NEW YORK is spelled out and the O in SER NO has a line under it. These were changed on the later production. The pistol is still in it's original Dulite finish and sports some WW I parts and barrel from Colt as Remington wasn't fully in production of all necessary parts. Holster that came with it is wartime vintage as well.