December 13-15, 2022 Collectible Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/15/2022
Woodsman .22 LR semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Colt in 1940. The left side of the barrel is stamped "THE WOODSMAN", with the left side of the slide stamped "COLT" followed by "AUTOMATIC / CAL. .22 LONG RIFLE" and the Rampant Colt logo. Top of barrel bears Colt's 2-line address. Metal components are blued, while the frame is mounted with 2-piece checkered wood grips. 6 - 5/8" barrel features a partridge front sight, with the slide featuring a dovetailed adjustable square notch rear sight. Partridge front sight has been painted white at the rear. CONDITION: Excellent, with metal components retaining the majority of their original factory applied blue finish, exhibiting some scattered handling marks overall, as well as a few areas of wear that lightly show through to a pleasant brown patina. Mirror bore, exhibiting sharp and well defined rifling throughout. Grips show moderate smoothing to the checkering and a few scattered nicks to the diamonds overall, but are otherwise fine. MLW